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In the morning all was fine. Even started a second pool for my local backups so as they fill I can add more drives. Seems balancing is really only an issue if I need to duplicate which I am not using at present. Looks like I will now have to pay for the application.
Thank you.
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drashna,
First, thank you for you quick response (especially as it is the weekend).
Second, my wife did drop the new 3TB disk while cleaning about a week ago. I always keep one spare on the shelf and she loves to clean. Here in Australia the wholesaler will take it back and run lifeguard and I suspect will say it is OK as it did with me after it repaired the disk. If I can't get this sorted I will buy another and use the dropped one somewhere else.
I have StableBit Scanner running on all machines and that explains why when I copied data to the new pool it only used the "undamaged disk" as the new 3TB Red was listed as "Damaged"
The # of bad sectors is not increasing it was always 29 (twice reported by StableBit).
As I write this I think DrivePool is very slowly balancing the data. I will report back again in the morning after letting it work all night.
Love to see you on the forums with Dave & Jim. I am running 2012 essentials as my server but I did the "SkipDomainJoin" like Paul Braren, not up to AD like you.
Umfriend,
Thanks for the input. I am not using duplication. Will try later if and when I get the basics working
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So to continue:
I created a drive pool for my media using the aforementioned 3TB WD Red (WD30ERFX) and 1TB Seagate (ST1000DM003). Giving me 4TB's in the pool (actually about 3.66TB's). I then proceeded to move my media from my nearly full old media drive 2TB WD (WD20EARX). This would take a few hours. After about 2 hours I checked to find that the transfer had stopped due to there being not enough space on the newly created pool. Upon opening DrivePool I discover that the copying had filled the smaller physical drive and left the larger one empty. OK so I look into balancing and set DrivePool to "Balance Immediately". A yellow flashing bar appeared at the bottom reading "Balancing 1.3%). It has been like that for an hour and the amount of free space on each physical drive has not changed (one being full and the larger one empty). Am I doing something wrong ((as usual) or do I wait patiently for DrivePool to do its thing?
Does the trial version have all the features?
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Lifeguard found repairable sectors and repaired them successfully!!??
Reran StableBit scanner which found 29 sectors unreadable - 14.5 KB.
Is this acceptable?
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Does this free up the section of the disk from which you moved the data such that is added to the pool?
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I tried WD lifeguard and it did not see it. So I initialized the drive (it is brand new) and lifeguard can now see it. Am running the extended lifeguard test which will take hours. When finished I will run stablebit scanner again. I want to use it in a drivepool. This will be my first go with DP. Have installed the 30 day trial version. My understanding is that I format the drive (NTFS) then add it to a pool. It seems you cannot add a drive which has data on it to a pool and have that data included in the pool. Is this correct?
Poppapete
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Scanning a new 3 TB WD red. Unformatted. Seems to have stopped and showing 14.0 KB unreadable on the disk (28 sectors).
Should I take it back?
Can I transfer a license
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Just installed WS 2012 E R2 and decommissioning WS 2012 E. I have installed StableBit Scanner. Can I use the old license and if so how do I transfer?