GavinCampbell

I always wondered this too. How much would you really benefit from it though? And also would it really be worth it to compress media thats already compressed? (Assuming you re-encoded video into some compressed format)

I've always stored my VM's outside of the pool. I don't think duplicating the VM's will work properly and never liked the idea of doing that on running VM's. You could always store them on the same drives just outside of the pool. I didn't do this though as I didn't want the VM's to affect the speed in any way. However, I recently purchased some SSD's and just added those to my server and put the VMs on them directly and totally separate from the pool. The speed increase I get from those is well worth the extra money.

I have the Subsonic Probox 4Bay and had the exact same issue. While trolling their forums I came across an article that mentioned downgrading the firmware on the box because they introduced drive sleeping or something like that which was causing my box to drop off whenever scanner was doing its thing. It took me a while before I came across this. It solved my problem. You may also want to make sure that "link state power management" is also disabled in the power settings. This may be worth looking into in case it helps with your problem.