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Thanks. It looks like it is working perfect now. I was just trying now to understand how it works. It sounds like there is no overhead then, is that correct? Next, I am going to trial scanner, and then purchase both. One question, I think I saw someone mention in the forums that you get $10 off any further purchases up to $10 when you purchase drivepool. I want to purchase drivepool and scanner on my main machine, then I want to put drivepool on my backup machine.

Well, I just gave up, uninstalled completely and reinstalled, and now is all good. Reporting 7.21GB. Just curious, I would expect 7.45GB or so, based on my other disk size, where is the loss, overhead I assume, but is there any details on this. Is it a percentage of each disk?

I did do a remeasure, and it fixed L:, but did not change the total pool size. I am actually going to remove both 1TB drives, and add 2 new 2TB drives, and just build a new pool. I will see if that fixes my problem. 3 Questions, in case I did something wrong the fist time; 1. Do I start the pool from a blank disk, or existing disk, or does it matter? It seems I was short about 2TB, and I started the pool by adding a blank 2TB disk, not sure if it's a coincidence. 2. Looking at the jpg above, it doesn't show the original drive I added, is that normal? 3. how do I see the PoolPart. folder on the original drive, I can see it on all other drives, but when exploring the original drive, it shows all your folders on pool. Is me not being able to see PoolPart. folder on that drive the reason I am having this problem?

I will have to give TeamViewer a look, I always use remote desktop, but my IP changed overnight. Anyways, I attached the screenshot.

I am not at home, and can't seem to remote in right now, so a screenshot will have to wait. But, the UI showed the Pool Name "Data (D:\) - (5.65 TB)" at the top, then lists the other 4 drives (2x2TB and 2X1TB) as drives in the pool, they are E:,F:,G:,H:, respectively in Windows. The D:\ drive is the one I added first. I know I wouldn't show 8TB, but I expected it to be 7.45 or so. Thanks. Wayne

Hi, I have recently installed the trial version of DrivePool. Sorry if this has been asked before, but I could not find anything, and didn't see anything in the manual about any overhead on pools. I assumed if I had 8TB worth of drives, I would have a 8TB pool, but I am getting 5.65 TB. I started by adding a new 2TB drive to the pool, then began adding my existing 4 drives to the pool. In total the 5 disks are 2TB + 2TB + 2TB + 1TB + 1TB. I then moved al files from the 4 existing NTFS drives onto the new pool D: drive. I then deleted all the $RecycleBin folders from each drive so that the only thing on each drive was the PoolPart. folder. Am I missing something, should I not have a 8TB pool? Do I need to remove each drive, reformat, and then re-add, that would be a very long process. I tried it with one drive, and I am back to the same 5.65TB pool. Thanks. Wayne