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Drashna, memleak fixed (as far as I can tell). Been running 765 all day and having it balance to percent used for all drives (so basically balancing for hours and hours)...still sitting at only 32gb RAM used, 16gb which is a RAMdisk. Thanks to you and Alex for fixing.

Okay, tried following the instructions at http://wiki.covecube.com/System_Freezebut it's not working. I've hit the right CTRL key with and entered Scroll lock twice. With a USB drive inserted. (both registry entries were added) No memory dump is being initiated I'm sitting at maxed out 64gb RAM due to memory leak. Things that might make my system unique - I have a ram drv of 16gb with all system files going to it (X:). I'm using Win 10x64

Thanks for leaning forward, Drashna. When I get home tonight I'll system freeze and grab a mem dump for you. I'm using mixed NTFS and REFS drives in my pool. I don't know what reparse points are, so I suspect I'm not using them. The mem leak started in the last 2 weeks for me. I know it's not the stable version - but that one doesn't like my mixed pool so I have to use a beta.

I know you guys are working on this...but the new beta is still eating memory. I'm running Win10x64 with 64gb of ram. With no programs running other than Drivepool balancing, after 2 hours I'm using 58gb of ram.

Drashna, this morning I tested again. I uninstalled the memory leak beta and went back to one in Mar. Memleak problem solved. However, I added the ssd to the pool and configured it via the plugin to get the files first. I then copied a 20gb .iso over to the pool. The copy speed still bottomed out halfway through at about 10mb. (Note, this doesn't happen when it's a separate ssd drive not attached to the pool). I opened up Task Manager to see which drives were getting the data and the SSD was not getting the data. In fact, what I noticed was two of my green WD3tb drives were getting the data simultaneously. Does Drivepool duplicate on the fly? It was my understanding that I could copy a file to the pool (ideally to the SSD) and then when it balances/duplicates it would move that file over and duplicate it. If it does duplicate on the fly - what would happen if I connected two identical SSDs and configured both (assuming the plug in works this time) - would the file be duplicated simultaneously on the SSDs then copied over to the slower drives during balancing?

Drashna, got a new one for you - and don't know if it's beta related When I copy a 20gb mkv file from my nvme (Samsung Pro 950) to a Sandisk Extreme Pro added to the Pool as a SSD Cache (via plugin), it starts with a 1.5gb copy speed, then deteriorates to 20mb/second or less. Just a week I go it would do this but then slow down to only 120mb/sec which I didn't notice/pay attention to. Thinking that perhaps it was bypassing the SSD plugin and writing to a mechanical green drive, I opened up Task Manager/Performance tab and watched which drive was getting the write access - it was in fact the SSD. So, the pool was directing the writes from the nvme to the SSD but I was still seeing very, very slow writes. Suspecting the pool, I removed the SSD from the pool, added a letter and duplicated the exact same 20gb mkv copy from nvme to SSD. It started at 1.5gb copy and then slowed down to 400mb/copy. The variable is the Drivepool. Additionally, it's something in the newest betas which I always use. I will remove the beta and go back a month or so and retest to confirm. It's my understanding that with the SSD cache setup, it should act like a straight copy from one drive to another and then duplicate after the copy is finished. Additionally, I've been converting my individual green drives to REFS but in this situation neither the nvme or the SSD are REFS (I suspected the error correction function on it might slow it down - so I made sure both are NTFS). Oh...and memory leak (

I'm not glad to say that I was the only one having this issue, but me too. My memory 64gb is maxed after a few hours of balancing and such.

Just curious, I haven't installed any new software except the beta for Drivepool and now I'm running out of my 64gb of memory when I am removing a drive.

Drashna, thanks again. Using Raid 5 in the past and having a 2 disk failure and a rebuild that was estimated to be over 3 weeks, I moved to Drivepool - must be nearly 3 years ago. I'm a fan but always look for the newest, bestest tech and self-healing is neat sounding. But, I'm not going to risk my media collection and the years of work it took to build on a system that could have a catastrophic failure. Thanks for the script. I plan on converting my remaining 30 drives to REFS over the next few weeks.

Thanks, Drashna. I'll do that as I remove them from the pool, reformat, then add them back. Can you remind me the downside to Storage Spaces again? I looked into before I switched to your product a long time ago - but am just curious since I'm seeing more articles on it.

Drashna, thanks for the quick response. 1. How do I access the configuration settings to enable mixed REFS with NTFS as I slowly remove one drive, format it, then add it? 2. You mention adding the command line file integrity blah, blah, blah - but in your example that was for just one drive. I have 32 drives without a drive letter. The only drive letter is the one that Drivepool creates. Do I need to just take that drivepool letter and use the command line or do I have to assign a letter to each drive and then enable it that way?

Just noticed that Windows 10 natively supports REFS now. What's the advantage of slowly adding REFS formatted drives to my pool?

Thanks, Drashna.

So, here's what's confusing, I marked unreadable blocks -"unchecked" forcing them to retest the unreadable sectors Now, it's down to 639,929 sectors vice the original 9million sectors. I have the latest beta for the program. And now...perfectly healthy? (I retested the other sectors). So what's the issue?

Can you tell me more about the false positive? It's a brand new drive. I ordered a replacement immediately from Amazon and just got it today and want to swap it out but if I don't need to.

Drashna, I have a 8TB drive about 75% full that is damaged according to Stablebit Scanner. It has about 9,173,295 sectors that are unreadable. If I have put the Stablebit Scanner Balancer add-in to the top, selected the options Move unduplicated and duplicated files out of damaged drives, shouldn't it automatically "remove" all data from the drive and put it on other drives? I ask because when I select "Remove drive" it goes for about an hour then reports an error "device not accessible." The only thing that pains me about your amazing software is this situation - removing a drive. Usually if a drive needs removed there's something wrong with it and getting the data off of it is painful. I can add a letter to it then manually copy it over but inevitably it gets added back to the pool because Drivepool still thinks it is (since I couldnt' remove it via Drivepool due to whatever fault that causes it to be flaky.)

Thanks, I was afraid you were going to say all of that.

Drashna, got an academic question for you. Was reading the news about that newest ransomware thing going around and thought...crap. If my media pool (100TB) got encrypted entirely, I'd be screwed. You just can't back up 100TB anywhere. In fact, I went Drivepool with duplication so I didn't have to worry about backup since if a drive fails, I have duplicates on the pool. My question is, let's assume all files in a particular directory were encrypted by a ransomware. 1. Would drivepool duplicate that encryption? Meaning, would both copies of a movie now be encrypted? 2. If not, how would I go through, painfully, and find all the unencrypted duplicates? The only time I see the hidden "copytemp" is when my overclock fails and it gets interrupted. 3. If drivepool is susceptible to this - it might be a neat feature to add in (if possible) - this ransomware stuff is getting out of hand.

For the first time in years, I'm getting drives that say "not useable" in Stablebit Scanner. However, they are good in Drivepool and can still be accessed/written to.

Version 2.2.0.746 BETA

Drashna, see attached file regarding Norton's positive on drivepool.service.exe I'm using the latest Beta. Win 10 x64 (fully updated)

Drashna, am I reading this correctly that if I install Robocopy or say Terracopy (since both are Windows Explorer type add-ins) then Drivepool will use their accelerated features to increase copy speed?

Thanks. I just bought a 1TB SSD instead. That way I can copy what I want to the pool and have it rebalance at night. Appreciate the insight though.

So I've been doing a lot of work on my pool lately and am reminded that green drives are well...green and slow. So I have about 5-8 extra SSDs laying around that are all 60gb. I know I could speed up writes if I used the SSD optimizer add-in (files are written there first and then copied to the pool later). However, these SSDs are small. When moving a 40gb file, that's basically one/drive. If I were to hook them all up, softraid them via Windows, could I then add say 480gb of raided SSDs to the Pool as the feeder drive? Any problems with this? Thoughts?

I hate it when someone doesn't answer the question but instead offers an alternative in a forum...but I'm going to risk it. I had the same problem before. I was storing movies in BDMV format or VTS chapters for DVDs. I was also using Drivebender. I had a few drive crashes and lost a chapter here or chapter there of a movie. Very frustrating. So my suggestion is to store your movies in .iso format (it's easy to make them .isos from your folders). Then you have the entire movie in just one file which Drivepool can put on two different drives in case of failure. I have over 2000 Blurays stored this way and get a drive failure about every 6-9 months. I've yet to lose a movie. Just my 1/50th of a dollar.