thepregnantgod

I'm looking for at a minimum a 24-port card that will allow me to connect 6 SFF8087 cables. My challenge, it seems, is PCI lanes despite having an X99 mobo. When I disconnect one of my two RAID cards my Samsung 950pro operates at peak. If both are plugged in, I find it drops to a mere 60mb read/write (slower than my storage drives). Thus, I'm interesting in combining my 8 and 16 port cards into one single card. Thanks in advance.

Drashna, I've been using your products happily since switching from Drive Bender about 2 years ago. I have 30 drives in a single pool (about 100TB). Most of us who are using this product likely have Green drives (5400rpm) instead of the faster ones. And, I know that I can set an SSD up to speed up writing to my pool (files moved to the pool are written on the SSD then later balanced out to the pool). But...when it comes to reading stuff it's not as fast as I'd like. First, it's likely the drive speed. Second, the drives likely spin down and go to sleep. I'm not a programmer but is there a way to (much like Windows Superfetch) identify those directories that are often accessed and cache them in some fashion that would expedite read access? And...I've changed my power settings in my device manager for each drive to ensure they don't power down/spin down but inevitably it seems as if I'm waking a drive up just to get data.

I had the same problem as well a while back. I didn't go through the exhaustive effort to find out what it was but I did narrow it down to files on my pool. If I created a file on my OS drive (SSD), it would show up in search and when I opened up File Explorer. When I created the same file on my pool it would not show up in File Explorer but would show up in search?

Perhaps you guys can help me, I have 30 disks (100TB) in a pool. One of them is an 8TB Seagate archive disk. About 2 months ago it started dropping routinely - which as you know - locks the pool into read only mode. I could get it to readd after a reboot but inevitably it would drop again upon high use. I removed all files from the disk, reformatted it, then readded it. Still same behavior. So I RMA'd the disk. The company sent me another 8TB archive disk and now I'm experiencing the same issue. Am I missing something? I can't imagine that I got yet another faulty 8TB disk. And...it's the only one out of 29 other disks that does this. And it's not my only Seagate disk. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Drashna, I remember reading good things about ReFS - but I don't think Windows 10x64 supports it yet. I'll avoid Dynamic disks. Thanks for the advice.

I have 30 disks - approx 100TB. I'm slowly converting each of them to 64K formatted disks (most of the files are very large 40gb media files). But is there an advantage of dynamic vs basic? If so, what? And what are the disadvantages?

I have striped 4 SSDs together via Windows (not hardware based since it conflicted with my nVME) Stablebit Scanner is showing the file system as damaged. However, when I check it with Windows, Tools, Properties, Check disk - it reports nothing. Any help would be appreciated.

For example, right now, if I create a new folder in my shared My Movies folder, it cannot be found unless I search for it. I can't scroll to it in the file list. Other file search programs won't find it either. This only happens on the pool so I suspect it has something to do with it.

I have a Bluray rip. It's on my drive pool. If I search for it via Windows Search function it shows up. However, if I simply try to scroll down to it, it's not there. I've gone to the folder and ensured that it doesn't have the hidden attribute and...I've checked to see all hidden files/folders anyway. Furthermore, if I use the program TreeFileSize or the search function within that, it doesn't show up either. This has happened before. I can't find a folder - despite me knowing it's there and I manually search for it but only with windows search no other programs. Is this a product of the pool balancing or something? A bug in the beta?

So, Drashna, to confirm, Drivepool can access two (perhaps 3 or more) copies of a particular file and then push them to whatever PC is requesting them and recombine them on the other end? I RAID stripe my OS so I understand that a file larger than the block size is actually written in parts across all the drives in the striped RAID. But with Drivepool, the file is not broken into parts. These files are full individual copies. Can you explain a bit more?

I'm curious if setting my duplication levels to higher than x2 would increase the read striping. I have 30 drives attached to my file server but most of the files are very large .iso rips (sometimes 30gb or higher). So I'm betting that it can only read that one file at a time? Or does it magically somehow pull the data from 2 different copies at the same time? And...if so, would providing a third by increasing my duplication ot 3 help?

I just bought a new SSHD 4TB drive (cheaper than the other 4TB drives) and am curious if it's still possible to keep that as a landing drive when I copy files to the pool? 1. Considering I've moved my pool to a headless media server in a closet and it's limited by ethernet speeds, will it matter? 2. Is it possible to have files in a cache on the way out as well? On the way in is presumably this SSHD or SSD but on the way out? I have nearly all green drives and their access time/spin up time is slow.

Drashna, I had it happen again but with a folder named "trans" (e.g. Transporter). I can create the folder but as soon as it's created it disappears in the normal view unless I specifically search for it. What's strange is if add other words to the file name like "This is effing crazy trans" - all is well but once I rename it back to "trans" it is gone. It's not really gone - but "filtered from view" - very odd and disconcerting. I saw the same thing with "Tracers" I'm going to test with other TRA directories and will report back.

I have a 80TB pool. On that duplicated pool I have a folder named Movies/Bluray Under that I have individual folders. When I attempt to create the folder Movies/Bluray/Trace or Movies/Bluray/Tracers - it simply disappears. I can create any other folder to include Movies/Bluray/T r a c e - and everything is normal but if I remove the spaces, it's gone?!?! Am I losing my mind? Before you ask - I have no errors on the drives, I have checked. Nor do I have any viruses - confirmed with multiple scanners/programs.

Just an update, since I'm too lazy to track down that previous post. I updated to the beta and all my files from the landing point (SSD) are being moved to the archive drives as expected. Your product is a great product - along with Scanner, I am pleased.

Win8 x64. Standard versions - I have not installed the betas.

Uploaded, but couldn't find a link to insert in this thread.

Drashna, how do you want me to send it to you? It's 16.9mb so it won't let me attach it to this thread.

Drashna, I have enabled system logging. I'm going to reboot, then later tonight zip up the logs for you.

Drashna, I'm glad we agree on that there's no such thing as fast enough! I do have balancing set to immediately. I have the entire pool duplicated x2. I have the SSD optimizer prioritized to top, then followed by Scanner balancer. I will check the other settings you requested when I get home. As I understand it, though, my SSD/RAID0 of 256gb should take all files coming into the pool. Wait until there is no activity and balancing triggers, then copy those files over to two separate archive disks (since I have duplication set to x2).

Yes, I'm referring to the SSD Optimizer Balancing plug in. If the Pool is seeing my SSD as a single drive (despite being RAID0) should not matter. It would be as if it were a single SSD. The functionality should be that new files are copied to the SSD (or RAID0) first, then after there is no activity, those files should be moved to the archive drives. The first part is happening - all files go to the SSD/RAID0 first. Problem is that some of those files are remaining on the SSD/RAID0 when they should be moved off. Finally, there is never a "fast enough" disk. Even if I added my RAM disk of 32gb to the pool (not smart), it would be still be slower than an equally sized RAM disk made of DDR4 memory instead of DDR3. There is never something "fast enough."

I set aside 2 SSDs in a RAID0 configuration for my 80TB pool. I moved the SSD Balancer to the top. My past experience and understanding is that it acts as the landing zone for new files but once the activity stops (i.e. over night), it should move those files to the archive drives. My concern is that the RAID0 is not safe and I don't want to lose files located on it when it breaks to find out that they didn't move to the archives. Any thoughts?

Maybe this is a feature request...I migrated (happily) from Drive Bender. And for the past year, I've been very satisfied with Drivepool/Scanner combo. However, one tool that Drivebender had (that I miss) is the ability to run a duplication check. It would identify any files marked for duplication that it can't find a duplicate of. After that, I could force duplication and it would begin creating those duplicates. Of course, this is supposed to be automatic. I have my entire pool duplicated. But when one lone 3TB drive fails, I'd like to run a duplicate check to see if all the files have been duplicated or if I lost any.

Has anyone used Drivepool with the Windows 10 preview? I have a very large pool (24 drives ~ 80TB). I semi-annually do a clean install and am contemplating doing a Win10 preview install. I'm curious if Drivepool is compatible.

This flag came up yesterday. I cannot repair it. I check the volume via Windows (not going through Scanner) and there are no errors. I have verified the volume integrity via Intel Raid Management software as well - no errors. Anyway I can fix this? Each time I try to repair it via Scanner, Scanner throws an error (which I send the bug report to you guys) and then it just continues to look as if it's repairing but obviously it isn't since the volume is locked being the OS.