teddyboy16

I was installing MyMovies today and was poking around looking at things. I opened up event viewer and saw a bunch of reported errors starting from June 14 to present. Sometimes the same error is logged once for that day or sometimes two or three times the same day. The error isn’t reported everyday sometimes it’s skips a day or two. Scanner appears to be behaving normally, but all the drives except one are listed as never being scanned even though they’ve been installed for 120 days now. Every time the error is generated a encrypted report is made. I’ve opened a ticked and attached two of the reports to the ticket.

Hi Verme, You don’t have to format the drive if has already been formatted nor do you have to assign it a drive letter. You cannot mix file systems in drivepool. All drives have to have the same file system. In General, the default filesystem is usually NTFS. Any files that existed on the drive before you added the drive to the new pool will still be there. Drivepool doesn’t alter the the contents of the drive. If you want to copy or move the data that still exists on the drive after it’s been added to the pool, simply drag the the folder(s) to the pool drive letter. Hope this answers your question.

this happened to me a couple of months ago. My old server crashed and burned hard. I submitted a ticket with all the correct information including my activation ID and within about 24 hours he was able to deactivate drivepool. He’s usually pretty good about support tickets although your post is from March 16th, he may have already taken care of it.

I have the beta of scanner installed. Everything seems to be working just fine so far.

I did expand the pool yesterday. I took out a five year old 1tb drive and replaced it with a new 6tb 7200rpm seagate drive. After about a minute it did come up and was visible in the system so I could add it to the pool. The only thing that was different was I upgraded to the released version of Drivepool 2.1.1.561 the night before adding the new drive to the pool. There was something about 1.x that the dash board didn't like suddenly because it started to crash when I attempted to open it. I would have to reopen the dashboard and it would point to the 1.x Drivepool addin as the culprit. Everything appears to be working really well now. Workstation is working well now too. No BSOD for over two weeks now. I think it knows it's going to be replaced ;-).

I ordered the motherboard and CPU yesterday. I decided to bump up the CPU to a Xeon E5-2620V3 2.4ghz processor $430.00. It has hyper threading and a few other goodies that the 1.9ghz Xeon does not have. Stupid CPU costs more than the motherboard! Newegg was out of memory, so I'll have to get it elsewhere. While I'm at it I might as well get a SATA III SSD because I have a 256gig SATA II SSD for the OS drive now. What I paid for my current SSD I can get one with double the capacity and faster for a little less money then what I originally paid! Sigh... :-)

StableBit Scanner S.M.A.R.T. Failure on 'xxxxxxxxxx' One or more disks are expected to fail within 24 hours: Seagate ST6000DX000-1H21 SCSI Disk Device You are receiving this message because you have set up email notifications to be sent to this address from the StableBit Scanner. That's what I sai in the email that was sent May 21st @ 6:16am

I installed the beta tonight. I did get another email today about a failing disk. One of the 6tb disks. This happened before the install this evening. I had to uninstall scanner completely front the console and control panel. Once I did that I was able to install the beta. Hopefully I won't see the error anymore.:-(

Windows 7 64bit so it should support it. Probably the most ill ever get is 128gb. The last time I used a 32 bit os was XP. Once Vista came out I went 64bit and never looked back for my desktop PC. The ram I picked up for the board are two Kingston DDR4 dims (actually one one was sold) KVR21R15D4/16. I think this would work.

Well when it blue screens it just freezes when it tries to write to the file. That could be it. At any rate I've got the new mother board and 32 gigs of memory sitting in my newegg shopping cart. I'll pick up the Xeon 6core 2.9ghz processor next week. The hardware is over four years old, so it really is time to replace it. At least when I get it installed upgrading to a CPU with more cores won't be so painful. Plus I'll have plenty of ram slots to expand to a larger memory pool. :-). I can expand up to 256 gigs.

Ok will do that when I get home from work today. Are they any issues with installing that I need to be aware of? Do I need to uninstall then install the new version? I'm running scanner through the WHS console. I'll install the beta...

I'll do that when I get home from work. There are no advanced setting in the scanner tab. I'm running 2.4.0.2929. I'm using Drivepool and scanner through the WHS console. It's the only way I interact with it and the rest of the add ins.

This is the second time scanner has reported imminent drive failure on a brand new 6TB Seagate drive. There are no smart errors or surface defects on the drive. The file system is reported as healthy. The whole disk is healthy. All three 6TB drives are healthy. It could be the controller? Two of the 6TB drives are on the same controller that I recently put in to replace the one with the two dead ports. I can't tell if it's those two drives scanner is reporting as ready to fail. I should probably try to swap out a drive this weekend on the other controller to see if it actually hot swaps out the drive for the new one.

Yes it is odd. This is a recent occurrence the last two times I replaced drives. I'll probably pick up another 6tb this weekend and see what happens when I install it. I did let the drive sit for about a minute or so, but in the past they usually comes up pretty quickly. I'll double check my settings on perfect disk, but I think that's what I set it at. Really nice application. I'm happy that I bought it. My server is used for My Movies, music, software archives. The only time things change is when I rip a movie or music cd to the pool. I don't run any VMs or databases except my movies it doesn't change a whole lot. Although when I upgrade I might want to play with VMs a little just for fun.

Yes the BSOD issue I've been having. I've already reinstalled windows. I can get by for now until I get all the parts to upgrade my system. Whs 2011 is running great. I just replaced the last drive with excessive head parking with a 6Tb drive I picked up at frys saturday. Drive pool and scanner are doing there thing. I'm having one small issue though with my hot swaps. The last couple of times I replaced a drive to expande the pool they wouldn't become visible to the system with out a reboot. Thats never happened before. The only thing that has changed was wnen I bought and installed Perfect Disk a couple of weeks ago.

Awesome! Mine is sitting in its box up at my house in Oceanside along with a bunch of other goodies that came in the mail. Glad you got in on that deal. I'm on my way to pick up my stuff now. The PC has been behaving with no blue screens since last Saturday. I'm going to order the motherboard and memory this coming week then I'll pick up the processor soon after that. I think I'll go with the 6 core 1.9 ghz for $305. That's not bad for a Xeon with six cores at that speed. The next big jump is 8 cores for $670. Been looking at specs for my case design. Playing with some concepts. :-) I can get by with the board and processor I have now until I get the new stuff. Whs 2011 is humming along. I'm going to drop by frys to pick up another 6tb drive in San Marcos. They are out in SD.

Solidworks, FEMA, 3d modeling animation in modo/maya, sculpting in z brush, circuit works which is a schematic capture and pcb layout application. ripping movies to my server, and the occasional game of diablo, or Starcraft, sometimes a shmup. I don't generally play games on my Pc. That's what I have gaming consoles for :-). I think a six core 1.6gjz would do just fine to start with. Memory is much more important. I'll double check on the memory for the board. I've been reading the performance on Xeon and its pretty impressive. I guess I shouldn't let the lower clock speeds fool me into thinking that they are nessasrily slower.

Well I took a look at a Supermicro MBD-X10SRA-0 ATX board 2011 plenty of pci express slots, on board audio, dual intel nics, ton of sata ports. This would be a good motherboard for me to get, and it would last me for a long time for 269.99. The CPU is about double the cost for a 8 core ivy bridge 2.0 ghz 889.99, ECC ram one stick of 16 gigs 166.99. Total cost out the door would be 1432.30. I think I may just spring for the board first. I don't want to spend that much at one time. I'll get the CPU and memory down the road. I can get by with what I have for now. I could get a six core Xeon 2.1ghz 2011 for 401.99 then upgrade to more cores later and that would drop the cost closer to my original cost. The cost with a six core would be 911.97 which is my target cost. That's doable for me right now. I don't over clock so system stability is more important along with tons of ram slots. Already have a workstation class graphics card. The other pci express slots would serve for GPU computing. Cost got bumped up a little to 936.83. I picked the wrong CPU it should be a E-2620 v3 for 429.99 on sale right now. It's still doable though. I could knock it down more if I got a E-2609 v3 1.9ghz 6 core for 304.99. That should still be plenty fast? I'm not to familiar with Xeon CPUs. What do you think?

I'll uninstall clone drive when I get home. I'll keep my fingers crossed! I do have $900.00 in new hardware sitting in my shopping cart from newegg. Asus X99-A board and a 6 core haswell i7 w/16 gigs of ram to start. It's amazing that what I paid for my Asus P7F7-E WS board 322.00, i7 870 quad core for 313.00,163.00 DDR3 1600 16 gigs. I get a platform that is much more powerful for about a $100 more. It will last me for a long time. I may pull the trigger and get it. At least my server is stable now. I just need to replace the last green drive that is throwing smart errors about excessive head parking. Eventually I'll replace all the green drives with 6tb seagates. Been doing some research on the server case. I can set Solidworks to save every 5 or 10 minutes just in case until I get some new hardware. I'm basically ready to start.

It's not magic. It's by design. As long as the pooled drives are intact, you should be fine.

The only anti virus I have installed is security essentials. No daemon tools, but I have have slysoft clone drive installed to read the occasional iso. That's not really essential to have installed. I am planning on upgrading my hardware but not for another couple of months to something more modern.

Uploading now as I type this. The stop error is noted in the description.

Ha! For some reason I thought the eBay link was for the intel sas expander. My bad! My Pc blue screened again over the weekend. Same stop error. I'll collect logs and then send them off. It's really frustrating. It's completely random. I can't figure out what's wrong. I'll collect the crash logs when I get home from work tonight. Sigh...

Even better from the same seller! 34.95 and free shipping! At that price I just might pick up another one. http://www.ebay.com/itm/221463870395

Hi Chris, My plan is to use the PCI-X AOC-SAT2-MV8 cards in the Supermicro board I mentioned earlier. Those can handle the internal drives in the case I'm going to design. They are pretty quick on the PCI bus now, but the extra bandwidth on the four PCI-X slots 100mhz and 133mhz should really let the cards loose. The one M1015 once it's flashed for pass through will sit in the PCIe 8x slot and be hooked up to the Intel RES2SV240 SAS expander that will be in the JBOD box. I'm going to use my existing Supermicro hotswaps in the new server box. I'll take a look at getting the hot swap rails. The ideal thing would be to use hotswap backplanes with bare rails, but if it came down to it I could buy more Supermicro hotswaps boxes. Need to take a look at it. BTW that Intel SAS Expander we've been talking about. I just bought one on EBay brand new for $60+12 shipping . It's on it's way to me as I type this. The guy has or had a boatload of them and the card had a buy it now price of $160 which is a great deal to start with but he'll also take best offers on the card. I found out about it through the Serve The Home website. I'll end up having a nice little JBOD box for addrional expansion. I'll start a new thread this weekend when I've done some research. Need to get my PC to settle down. I got a blue screen last night with the Stop Error 0x00000101. It was random. Dunno what caused it. I just did a fresh install of windows last weekend everything is up to date including drivers. I did apply a patch last night for usb 2.0 that could cause it. Maybe that might take care of it. The other patch was related to a Intel erratum for Nehalem processors. That would not install because it said that it was not applicable to my system even though I have a 1156 i7 870 cpu that has Nehalem micro arcitecture. It might be that specific patch was already installed through Windows update. Need to take a look at chipset drivers as I used the ones on the original disc for my ASUS board. Aren't computers fun! :-)