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  1. From the folks who know more than me...is there a risk with running Perfect Disk (defragmenter) on drives that are part of a pool? I know that Drivepool moves files around since I have the volume equalizer set but will defragmenting them on a monthly basis cause any problems to the data?
  2. Might sound silly, but sometimes I find a .tmp file if I look during duplication. Will marking folders read only prevent duplication?
  3. Where can I find information on these settings? In particular, the DirectIoScanBusMaximuMBPs and Scan Maximum Concurrent; ScanwithDirectIO, etc.
  4. For those interested...lessons learned: 1. Slows my system to a crawl (and I have a beast system - specs below) 2. Completely useless when compressing large "uncompressed" media files (i.e. straight Bluray rips at 30gb are still 30gb) 3. I'm unsure if this is because it's having to do more CPU work (since I didn't see that climb) or just that my pool is comprised of 24 3-4TB Green disks which are slow to start... Specs: 3930K @ 4.5ghz 48gb DDR3 1600 Ram 6xOCZ Vertex 4 (Raid 0) for Win8.1 x64 OS 24 3-4 TB Green Drives (WD and Seagate) = 72TB total - connected via onboard LSI SASx8 and external LSI SASx16 adapters (non RAID just duplicated via Drivepool)
  5. What do you folks feel about enabling "compression" via Disk Management? Most of my media are ripped movies. My only recollection is that there would be a performance hit but considering I have a 3930K at 4.5ghz with 48gb RAM, I'm not sure that is a valid point any longer?!?! I have everything Duplicated so my 70TB is actually about 35TB and shrinking...
  6. I have the entire pool (24 drives) duplicated. However, after the measuring is complete is still shows about 7+TB unduplicated. Looking at hidden folders, the ONLY thing that shouldn't be duplicated is the Recycle Bin. So...I'm confused why the measuring would show such a large amount of data unduplicated. Can someone explain or tell me how to confirm/check every file is duplicated?
  7. I have a 24 drive pool. About 3 days ago, drive 24 just dropped. I would reboot and it would remain in the pool for about 5 mins then drop again. Each time I tried to "remove" it via the remove function, it would drop before I could. So I unplugged the drive, removed it from the pool and started the duplication check. (Hopefully everything is fine). In the mean time, I'd like to plug the drive back in even though intermittently and try to get a file print out to compare what was on it vs what I have in the pool (to check duplication). The problem is that as soon as I plug it in it immediately is added to the pool. There's some configuration file on the drive that makes it think it's part of the pool. I'm going to assume it's the root directory but if my suspicions are correct, any amount of serious writing/reading to the drive causes it to drop so creating a new root and moving the contents there would force drop it. Is there one particular file I can delete that will allow me to read the contents of the drive and keep it separate from the pool?
  8. Uggh...I've had this happen before. I rebuilt my OS, installed Drivepool, my pool came up, but now Windows 8 is denying me access to everything. I installed the Win8 reghack - Take Ownership. I successfully take ownership of a folder but when I try to open a txt file it still says "Access Denied." Is there a way around this?
  9. I'm going to do some research on my own, but I figured I'd shotgun my request to the community as well. I have 24 3-4tb drives Pool'd together into a whopping 70tb directory that houses all my music, media, documents, computer backups, etc. I'm interested in encrypting these files but still want to be able to stream them throughout the home to the rest of my PCs. I don't need to stream them to mobile devices outside my intranet (yet). I've never used encryption. My fear is that, assuming I don't change my habits, I will break and rebuild this pool twice a year. I've already encountered the pain in the butt problem with security permissions everytime I reload the OS and add the pool. I don't want to enable encryption to find out that I've shot myself in the foot and locked all my files from myself forever and ever and ever. So...anyone with experience, please let me know how Bitlocker works? Does it, in effect, password protect each file that can be unlocked on the fly by another PC that has the key?
  10. I apologize if this has been asked before, but I have a 3TB disk that is perfect except 8 sectors (4k). I've recovered the file out of that area. I've tried rewriting to that sector (via consolidating the drive with Perfect Disk) but it still shows up red. Consequently, Drivepool correctly "balances" all the data off that drive - evacuates it. I don't want to do that. Is it possible to keep using this drive in the pool without disabling the scanner integration in drivepool?
  11. Same problem, different reason now. I transferred my 24 disks to a new mobo/Win 8.1 x64 setup. Running latest beta of Drivepool. Changed drive letter from D: to S: in Disk Management. When I go to label the drive it says I need to grant administrator privs. I hit okay, and then it says access denied. What am I missing?
  12. I have to confirm this, Drashna, but I believe the problem is that Scanner doesn't have administrative rights/ownership to the files. I've tested all the files as well as did a chkdsk /r via Windows. The drive is fine but having pulled the pool from another system, it seems that Scanner tries to read them and can't so it marks them as unreadable (the amount of unreadable sectors is identical to the amount of used sectors - give or take). Again, I have to confirm this but that is my initial finding.
  13. Transferring my disks to a new build, etc. Only one of my disks has thrown up like 3,000,000 unreadable sectors. Literally, Scanner reports that 1.61gb is unreadable. Cooincidentally, Windows reports the same amount of disk space used as 1.61gb. I've run Windows chkdsk and no errors. I can access the files too (though I didn't access all of them, but if 1.61gb is unreadable and that's everything - then simply accessing one 40gb file should demonstrate something's not right... Any ideas?
  14. Also, Drashna, remember, this is the pool that we can't figure why I can't rename it. If I just plug this pool into another build - it'll have the same problem, no?
  15. 1. Move all the main folders to the base drive and delete the hidden Poolpart... 2. Install Drivepool. 3. Activate 4. Add all drives to pool 5. Enable entire pool duplication 6. It will somehow know that all the files are already duplicated?
  16. Drashna, you've answered this before but I want to be sure... I have a pool with 22 drives fully duplicated. I want to change the motherboard/cpu, etc. 1. Release license on drivepool/scanner 2. Build new system 3. Plug all the drives in and everything will be just as is? 4. Or, move all the main file directories out of the hidden poolparts, delete the poolparts, then reinstall Drivepool on new system. 5. If I do step 4, will Drivepool recognize that all my files are already duplicated? Or should I remove duplication (which I don't want to do), then make a new pool and enable duplication? If I'm missing steps or there's an easier way, let me know. Much thanks.
  17. Drashna, Alex, thank you for looking into this. Two problems... 1. Volume ending in ...27f50 doesn't exist on my system (at all). I've added a letter to each separate drive then used the cmd /k mountvol command to verify. 2. I have Scanner installed and have it do a full scan every 10 days - each drive is marked healthy, no smart errors, anything. Wouldn't CRC errors/failing platters, etc. show up? 3. I've attempted to rename the pool again via Disk Management, properties on my pooled drive mount (D) - and still no go.
  18. Drashna, again, thanks for the quick responses on these boards. Seems like a lot of work for the work around. I'm thinking I might swap out motherboards and just rebuild everything (so I would have to do what you're saying eventually). Do you guys transfer licenses for scanner/pool? I know they are hardware locked and swapping mobo will likely trigger a reactivate.
  19. How should I check them? Via Properties/Tools? Does Scanner have a function that will fix the disk? Is there a way to simply create a new pool (with all the same disks/same data?)
  20. Drashna, the volume you stated was my Drivepool volume (assigned to letter D:).
  21. Under Windows 8 Action Center, it states a drive has errors, please scan. When I do scan, it says it doesn't have permission. This is likely because the drive is not mounted to a letter or path - simply part of the pool. I have to go into Disk Management, mount it/assign it a drive letter then scan. Painful considering the amount of drives I have.
  22. Drashna, I enabled file system logging on DrivePool. I went to Disk Management and selected the properties of my Pool (D:) and attempted to rename it to HTPC Data (70TB) Nothing happened. I went to the Program Data directory and zipped up the Service Sub folder. I then emailed it to you via the form box on the log collection page. Hope that works.
  23. Folks, I know Stablebit scanner will show that a file system is damaged. Windows 8 does this as well. I've gotten the flag in the bottom left corner that says a disk needs repaired. However, when I click repair it says that I don't have permission. Is there a way to easily do this without adding drive letters to the 24 drives and individually checking them? Inevitably, it's the very last drive that has errors!
  24. Drashna, headed out for some family time, I'll test this on Monday (Japan time).
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