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    HTWingNut reacted to gtaus in SSD Cache - Multiple Pools with ONE SSD?   
    Another option to consider may be using a product like PrimoCache which can use both your system RAM as level 1 cache and you SSD as level 2 cache for all your computer reads/writes - so, not just limited to DrivePool. DrivePool will use the SSD cache for writes only, but does not use it for caching reads. PrimoCache is a try before you buy software, and I think they offer a 30 day trial period. It worked good for me, but I chose just to use the DrivePool SSD plugin which is all I needed for my DrivePool home media server.
    If you decided to go with something like PrimoCache, then you would not have to partition your SSD for multiple pools in DrivePool. In theory, you would have access to the entire SSD for every drive in your system and nothing wasted sitting in a partition that is not being used. Additionally, it is possible to overrun your DrivePool SSD cache if your data transfer is larger than your available space on the SSD. That has never happened to me, but evidently it is possible in DrivePool. With PrimoCache, on the other hand, it is more like a true buffer and you would not be able to overfill it. If you ever filled the PrimoCache buffer, the data would slow down/stop until more buffer space was available.
     
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    HTWingNut got a reaction from BackupSecurity in Smart error failure - all drives say healthy?   
    In the SMART details for that drive look for "Reallocated sector count", "Reallocation Event Count", "Uncorrectable Sector Count"... The Raw Values should be zero, if not that means there's some bad sectors. It's not always end of the world, if there's only a few. But it may be an indication why Scanner is maybe showing an issue. If those are all zero, then I'm not sure what else to look for. 
    Does scanner show what that "1 warning" is anywhere? You'd think that it would show you somewhere what that "1 warning" is.
    I'm fairly new to Stablebit Scanner myself, but hopefully you can figure this out somehow (and a Stablebit rep stops by too, hopefully). Otherwise I'd put in a ticket with them. I did ask a question to them about DrivePool and they responded within 24 hours.
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