omniphil

I have 5 external USB boxes each with 4 HDDs in it. I use 19 of these drives for 1 big drive pool and 1 for SnapRaid parity. This is just a backup raid/pool for me so I only bring it online about once a month, copy any new data from my Synology over to it and then power the backup raid/pool down. I manually power down the USB boxes once all the lights stop flashing and all data has been written, the issue is when in a month I want to fire them all back up.... When I power them all on DrivePool see's everything as missing and never reconnects to the drives. I have to reboot the server and DrivePool takes a while to rediscover all the driver and the does a check of the pool health. Is there a way that I can get DrivePool to just bring the pool back online without a reboot? (Previously used Windows Storage Space and I could power down the disks and fire them back up and the volume would automatically be mounted and available)

I have one SSD drive that has some bad sectors which is pretty typical, but Scanner won't let me get rid of the warnings. I have disabled Surface scan on this drive and I figure if I uninstalled Scanner and reinstalled it would start fresh and I could just not surface scan that one drive. Once I uninstalled I went into both Program Files folders and deleted anything that said Scanner and also did the same in %AppData% Once I reinstalled it automatically picked up all the old settings and errors before even scanning the drive. How can I do a fresh install deleting any saved data?