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Sirkassad

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  1. If you have two drives that are in a pool and you are wanting to repalce both, you only need a docking station if you aren't duplicating the pool right? I am doing something similar but I don't have a docking station. My plan is to make sure that both drives getting replaced have all the same folders/files (pool duplication). My initial thought was to remove the first drive to be replaced from the pool (all folders files still in the 'one-drive pool', power down the computer, physically replace the drive I just removed with the larger one, boot back up, add the new drive to the pool and wait. After the pool has completed writing to the new drive I'll go throught the same process with the second drive to be replaced.
  2. I have a pool that has 2 8TB drives. I am going to upgrade both drives to 16TB but I cannot add a new 16TB without first removing a 8TB. I wasn't doing any pool duplication so several days ago I kicked it off and it is 25% done. Takes forever. My plan was to wait until this is done, then remove one of the 8TB drives and replace with a 16TB, wait for it to re-write the pool to the 16TB, then remove the 2nd 8TB and add the 16TB. To me this is the only way given I cannot have all the drives connected at the same time. Does this make sense?
  3. I received a warning about a balancing problem and so I was advised to start a manual balancing, which I just did. Is there anyway for me to see in real-time the file(s) being moved?
  4. More of a comment than a question. So I've been dealing with the ultra slow re-balancing performance and I've given up. I have a USB DAS populated with fairly large drives and when attempting to re-balance the throughput is so slow that it is worse than watching paint dry. I'm not sure if this is because it is a DAS, but it is unaccapetably slow, we're talking read/write speeds of a couple MB/s. I followed the instructions of editing the setting.jron file, and have tried increasing the priority. No improvment. The workaround is to do this manually. I identify the file(s) that I want to move from one drive to the other, and use swap space (storage that is not part of the drivepool). I cut/paste the file from the pool to the swap space. I then modify/create file placement rules so that when the file is placed back in the pool it goes to the correct drive. File placement rules are quite easy and straight forward and my workaround works much faster that letting drivepool re-balance.
  5. I would just do a drive replacement. This however is the boring solution, and it almost sounds like you might be looking for a reason to upgrade other system components.
  6. Very happy with how drivepool has performed on my aging desktop, but soon I'll be transferring the license to my newer PC, a Hades Canyon NUC running Windows 11. Currently my drivepool consists of internal drives, but after my 4-bay external enclosure arrives I'll connect it to the Hades Canyon and use drivepool with the DAS. It has USB 3.1 Gen2 so no bottelenecks there for streaming my 4k UHD videos. I have paralysis from analysis when trying to decide which hard drives to put in the DAS. My first question for the group is for someone to validate that drivepool with read striping enabled on DAS drives will not introduce a bottleneck when streaming 50-80GB mkv video files. Assuming drivepool will play nice with this setup, I am partial to western digital drives and put a premium on noise level over performance. I'm trying to identify the most quiet 14tb-18tb hard drive out there. Reliability and noise level are the most important factors.
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