Can someone with lots more experience tell me the best way to upgrade a machine currently running drive-pool??

I would like the new machine to use the same data and info I currently have.

I would like to simply plug my HD's into new machine and go from there.

I am guessing: 

a) buy another license  (most likely) [I know I could  just use one for less than 30 days]  -I'd support the developers for this!!!

b) bring up new machine with old disks??

Am I missing something big

Thanks in advance

I was wondering if it were to be possible to develop a balancer that will help with media servers. If someone has a large collection, currently, new files are parsed between all the drives in an array. If a drive were to die, you would lose random files of many different collections. For example, one or two episodes of 500 TV series. 

An ideal balancing would be to store all files of the lowest-level folder together. This way, if you lose a drive, you lose an entire series that could be replaced in batch, rather than piecemeal restoring episodes from a lot higher number of total series. 

Any thoughts?

Background: I recently build an AM4 home server, using 8x 4 TB drives (all leftovers, of which some of very questionable heritage, and some are even SMR's, brrr).

• Hardware: AM4 Asus Pro mainboard / Ryzen 5 3500X / Axagon PCES-SA6 / 16 GB RAM / HDD 9x HDD / 1x NVME / 1x SSD
• Software: Windows 11 / Drivepool / Drivescanner / HDD Sentinel
• Other software on the same machine: SqueezeBox (Lyrion) Server / Plex

I noticed a few things, and perhaps I don't understand how it exactly works.

1. In the Drivescanner window, it shows how many days ago the last scan took place. I have different periods set for filesystem scans and sector scans. What is exactly shown on that page? The last sector scan, or just any scan activity?

2. When I set in settings 'only perform within this window' it doesn't seem to matter whatever I set as 'unless disk scans are past due by xxx days'. It just never starts scanning, unless I use 'perform work at any time'.

A bug, or something I don't understand? (Probably the latter 🙂 )

3. Under throttling I use 'do not interfere' with 'high sensitivity' which is ok. I was just wondering why 'scan using background' would never trigger a scan, even when there's nto a single user or other application (but the generic services) actively accessing any of the drives.

Again, I'm a newby with Drivepool and Drivescanner...

Thanks

Phillip Hury

When I look at the scanner, it shows the storage spaces as just one large disk. Will the scanner still scan the individual drives?

What am I missing?

I have a feature request regarding the email notification function of Stablebit Scanner.

Due to certain circumstances, I am using multiple disks that have SMART warnings. (Please don't worry about the data on these disks, as it's all expendable.) While operating in this environment with Stablebit Scanner, I encounter a significant issue.

The problem is that when Stablebit Scanner detects abnormalities and sends an email notification, it lists all the disks currently with SMART issues.

The issue here is that when I receive an email notification from Stablebit Scanner, I can't determine which disk triggered the notification and which abnormality it detected.

Some disks with SMART warnings may not worsen over time, while others may see their SMART values deteriorate gradually.

With the current email notification system, it's difficult to ascertain this information.

Therefore, I would like the email notifications to include the content of the previous report simultaneously and highlight any changes that have occurred since the last notification.

This would help users in deciding whether they need to replace the HDD promptly or if there's some time before it becomes critical.

Best regards.

Having a bit of an issue with Stablebit Scanner V2.5.7.3565. Yesterday I completed a scan on one of drives. When it finished it said last scan was 21 days ago. Today I scanned another drive and it said last scan date was 22 days ago. Needless to say I'm a bit puzzled. Any ideas?

Win10 Pro x64 2004

Edit - a little more info. Despite the system clock being 22/02/2021 and the scan starting and finishing 22/02, the oldest scanned block is showing as 31/01: https://ibb.co/cwDxKPc

It's as if the program uses a difference clock than that of the system, despite me being unable to see anything in the settings.

Thanks.

 I am running scanner on a different virtual machine than drivepool. I want the scanner to be able to connect to drive pool to tell it when to evacuate a drive and such.

 Is there a way to link them?

Thanks!

So I have these two Seagate Archive 8B (ST8000AS0002-1NA disks that are very close in age en up-time. One shows 6y128d but the other 31 days...

It didn't used to be like this. Both have around 4y140d Last Scanned, lol.

Should I be worried about the "young" drive?

I had various issues, corrupted recycling bin being one of them. Permissions were all out of wack. I fixed everything but I am still hit with this error when the pool tries to organize 

I am using StableBit Scanner and Drivepool. Both are stuck at "Starting service" for quite some time. I have followed instructions here to wipe the config: https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_Scanner_Q4200749

but after I do so, I still see the "Starting service" stuck on startup.

Thanks

I can get to the window with the tabs: Settings | Advanced Settings | Logging | Simulate. I can select every tab except for Advanced Settings which results in an error and the whole UI completely closing. I attached the error log. 

I tried repairing the install but the problem persists. Please help!

ErrorReport_2025_11_19-04_59_43.7.saencryptedreport

No response after a month? Not even to probe for solutions? Cool, cool, very cool.

UPDATE:

This server had two Samsung SSD. The 128gb OS drive that was throwing the occasional SMART warnings and a 256gb that I used as a landing drive. I never received any warnings on the 256gb drive. I pulled the 128gb drive with the issues and replaced it with the 256gb drive. After a couple days I started to get the same SMART warning for the 256gb drive. Could this indicate a problem with the cable or with the actual motherboard? Im going to swap cables for now and if the warning comes back Ill try plugging the drive into a different port on the motherboard. 

The older drives seem to have a folder like PoolPart.a14e8a9a-cab4-4413-81d4-029254f50b28 and some files left over. 

When I have a good look it seems the only files left are ones in duplicated folders. 

Is this normal. 

My guess when removing drives from a pool if the files are duplicates the drive has non duplicate files in the folder moved to other drives in the pool.

If their is a original file in the pool then the pool accepts moving the file is redundant and just creates a new duplicate file or folder.

This leaves removed drives with a folder and files that were duplicates on the old drive removed from the console. 

Is this correct. 

I have over 60 TB of data so its not easy to just check with so many files. 

I added two new WD Enterprise Gold Drives recently - one is 16TB and one is 12TB.  Both drives have been added to DrivePool successfully and both pass scanning in SB Scanner.  However, the 12 TB drive is being reported by Scanner as "The on-disk SMART check is not accessible.", whereas SMART on the 16TB version is read. 

I checked with CrystalMark Disk Info and it reads the SMART parameters on both drives fine.

I saw a mention of this issue in another thread and based on that tried checking the NoWMI setting in advanced settings, but that didn't resolve the problem.

System hangs, I have to reboot, come back and now Scanner has no record of scanning any of the drives and has started all over.

Uggh...

   I am new to this world and recently got the Pool and Scanner. A pool over 3 HDD and 1 NVME have been created. I downloade the scanner and it scanned 1 nvme and found it healthy, then went onto the 1 (out of 3) hdd and found it healthy  But the remainder of the last 2 hdd is forever stuck at 15% and 30% (thereabouts). Is there a setting i need to click on ?

Sorry for the trouble