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Is that true? I asked for clarity on this exactly several days ago but never got a response.

@Katz777I just went through this recently after setting it up several months ago. I use Scanner, DrivePool, and CloudDrive. I had to update my Scanner settings not to query SMART more often than once per hour, and not to wake drives to query. I also had to disable BitLocker detection in the JSON config file. I didn't need to do anything with CloudDrive. Once I made those changes and a couple of Windows config changes everything worked fine.
Last time I updated DrivePool the BitLocker detection flag was reset to default and the drives wouldn't sleep anymore.
I did need to enable options 13 and 15 as described in this post in order to set the power options that worked for me. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/configure-hidden-power-options-in-windows-10

To quote my response to Christopher:
" If I'm understanding the rest of your explanation correctly, you're saying that anytime the application needs to retrieve a file from any disk in the pool all of the disks will wake up from sleep so that DrivePool can determine upon which disk a file is residing in order to deliver it back to the application. Is that correct?"
Your response still doesn't answer it clearly. Is there caching or isn't there? Will the drives wake up any time there is an application that needs to retrieve a file from any disk, or does DrivePool mitigate that somehow? Should I expect to see disk activity on all disks any time a file on a single disk is retrieved or are there times when DrivePool can deliver file location information without waking every disk?

it sorts by votes by default, which is ... frustrating, IMO.  

I just wanted to say that @Christopher (Drashna)has been very helpful each time I've created a topic. I have found him and the others I've worked with to be thoughtful and professional in their responses.
Thanks for all the work you all do.
Now we can all stop seeing that other thread previewed every time we look at the forum home.

I just wanted to say that @Christopher (Drashna)has been very helpful each time I've created a topic. I have found him and the others I've worked with to be thoughtful and professional in their responses.
Thanks for all the work you all do.
Now we can all stop seeing that other thread previewed every time we look at the forum home.

I just wanted to say that @Christopher (Drashna)has been very helpful each time I've created a topic. I have found him and the others I've worked with to be thoughtful and professional in their responses.
Thanks for all the work you all do.
Now we can all stop seeing that other thread previewed every time we look at the forum home.

I just wanted to say that @Christopher (Drashna)has been very helpful each time I've created a topic. I have found him and the others I've worked with to be thoughtful and professional in their responses.
Thanks for all the work you all do.
Now we can all stop seeing that other thread previewed every time we look at the forum home.

Thanks @VapechiK for the info. I actually was able to recover the information from records I have. However, that doesn't recover the most recent scan information which also reset. Something has happened that is preventing that information from persisting for some reason. I'd like to get to the bottom of that.
As to UPS, I am on all (relatively affordable) consumer hardware so I'm not really worried about equipment failures due to power outage. I've got everything plugged into surge strips and worst case if a component fails I'll just replace it. Too many stories over the years of home UPSes catching fire. To me they're an unacceptable home fire risk.  However, that power outage alarm you shared is pretty neat. Never seen one of those.
We definitely use large enterprise grade UPS and generators in our datacenters at work though  

hello.  in Scanner go to settings with the wrench icon > advanced settings and troubleshooting and on the first tab is where to bu/restore its settings.  you may have to enable the avanced settings from the 'general' tab under 'Scanner settings...' first.  it will create a zip file containing many json files and want to put it in 'documents' by default so just back it up elsewhere.  after renaming drives in Scanner i stop the StableBit Scanner service, twiddle my thumbs for a sec or three, restart the service and GUI and and the custom names and locations are all saved (for me anyway).  only then do i actually create the Scanner backup zip file.  i haven't had to actually restore Scanner using this zip file yet but it seems like it will work (knock on wood).  and i don't see how recent scan history would be saved using this method.  saved from when the zip file was created maybe but anything truly recent is likely gone.
it's probably a good idea to create a spreadsheet or text file etc. with your custom info ALONG WITH the serial number for each of your drives so if it happens again you can easily copy/paste directly into Scanner.  i set up my C:\_Mount folder with SNs as well so i always know which drive is which should i need to access them directly.
i have 2 UPSs as well.  1 for the computer, network equipment, and the RAID enclosure where qBittorent lives.  the other runs my remaining USB enclosures where my BU drives and Drivepool live.  even that is not fool-proof; if no one's home when the power dies, the one with all the enclosures will just run till the battery dies, as it's not controlled by any software like the one with the computer and modem etc, which is set to shut down Windows automatically/gracefully after 3 minutes.  at least it will be disconnected from Windows before the battery dies and the settings will have a greater chance of being saved.  if you have a UPS and it failed during your recent storm, all i can say is WOW bad luck.
one of these or something similar is great for power outages:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PUQILCS/?coliid=I1XKMGSRN3M77P&colid=2TBI57ZR3HAW7&psc=1&ref_=list_c_wl_lv_ov_lig_dp_it
saved my stuff once already.  keep it plugged in an outlet near where you sleep and it will wake you up.
hope this helps  and perhaps others may benefit from some of this info as well.
cheers

@Shane and @VapechiK - Thank you both for the fantastic, detailed information! As it seemed like the easiest thing to start with, I followed VapechiK's instructions from paragraph 4 of their reply to simply remove the link for DP (Y:) under DP (E:) and it worked instantly, and without issue! 

Again, I thanks for taking the time to provide solutions, it really is appreciated!

Thanks much!

Correct.

It looks like disk location information (e.g. case and bay) is stored in
C:\ProgramData\StableBit Scanner\Service\Store\Json\Disk_diskidentifierstring.json
if that helps any?