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mr_yellow

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  1. Hi, I was comparing my drivepool setup with a friend of mine and I noticed that I'm missing the drivepool add-in in the Server Dashboard. I don't recall if it was because I installed essentials package after installing drivepool or not but is there a way to force a reinstall of the drivepool add-in pane to the server dashboard? Thanks,
  2. Hi, I recently discovered that Stablebit Scanner has a dashboard add-in version which I installed after uninstalled the desktop version. Now I realized gettng to the scanner takes twice as long since I have to boot up the dashboard *then* click on the scanner add-in. And there's no longer a start menu link to launch scanner independantly. I'd love to be able to just launch Scanner via the start menu while keeping the dashboard add-in. Is this possible? Edit;: this is for windows server 2012 R2 Thanks,
  3. Windows Search is currently configured to index the shared folders and IE history. There's nothing that indicates it's searching directly the drivepool or the drivepool drives. However, the shared folders DO reside on the drivepool drive...
  4. I recall when cloning a partition from an HDD to an SSD, you need to make sure the partitions are aligned properly. Are you sure your cloning tool knows how to handle SSDs? This is the guide I used to migrate my windows 7 install on my old thinkpad to an SSD. http://lifehacker.com/5837543/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid-state-drive-without-reinstalling-windows
  5. Thanks, I finally got around to trying this out. Looks like you're using a lookup on all the available case/location names and not a persistent static list that's predefined. Once I renamed location of the last drive, I no longer saw the old name in the drop down list. Thanks!
  6. I'm running drivepool version 2.1.1.561 on Windows Server 2012 R2 I've just realized that it's the directories that are getting new timestamps... not the files themselves... Sorry for the confusion... Eitherway, preserving the timestamp of the directories would be great too... just not as crucial as the file timestamps which *is* being preserved as far as I can tell...
  7. Hi, I've noticed that when files get rebalanced (moved from disk to disk), the timestamps of those files get updated. Is it possible to prevent this? this messes things up since I like to sort by date to see newest media first... Thanks,
  8. Hi, This is a stupid question but I can't seem to find out how... How can I rename the case location after it's been added? This is in the disk settings -> location -> case drop down Thanks,
  9. thanks... It's strange. After I pulled the drive out to look at it on a seperate system, all the unaccessible folders disappeared and all the remained were some duplicated files and folders. Perhaps the unaccessible folders I had before were all stale references still in memory... Perhaps due to my slow atom processor?
  10. Hi, I recently removed two drives from my pool and noticed that one of the drives was left clean and empty but the second drive left behind a lot of files and directories. There are directory and files I can still access are from duplicated forlder as far as I can tell. There are some directories from non-duplicated folders that are completely unreadable (no read permissions) and I can't take ownership at all even with domain admin rights. I can't remember if I told drivepool to do a quick remove (duplicate later) but I'm pretty sure I didn't. Is the behaviour I'm describing (unreadable directories and left over duplicated files) normal from a drive pool removal or is my memory just bad and maybe I clicked quick removal? Just want to check before I reformat these drives... Thanks,
  11. Doh... was trying not to 'fix' them since I'm fairly certain that the bad sectors will come back.. I'd prefer to just mark them as unusable... So assuming when stablebit scanner finds the bad sectors again, does it somehow tell the OS not to use those sectors? Thanks,
  12. Hi, I have a 2TB drive with a small number of bad sectors detected (~45kb's worth). Scanner detected them and evacuated the drive which is fine. I wanted to mark those sectors as bad so they don't get used again so I did a full format which is suppose to detect bad sectors and mark them and unusable (according to a few sites) but after the full format, it lists 0 bad sectors when I do a chkdsk! So I'm running scanner on the drive again and I suspect it'll detect the bad sectors. When it does so, does it prevent the OS from using those blocks is it only for the visual block map in the UI? Does anyone know how to mark bad blocks as unusable while keeping the rest of the drive usable? Thanks, And yes, I'd RMA the drive, but the drive is already an RMA of an RMA....
  13. just to update this thread... I migrated the data. deleted the drivepool settings as per the instructions and restarted. I had ~5+TB of data across 4 drives to re-scan through. On my pokey 1.6 ghz Atom processor (Acer H340 Server), it took about 1 day for it to finish scanning. I had one hiccup where the drivepool UI still showed everything as "other" data but I just had to go into the duplication settings again to force a re-scan which fixed the pie chart. The duplication scan was faster but still took several hours. So far so good.. =) thanks everyone!
  14. Hi All! I'm in the process of transitioning from WHS v1 to Windows Server 2012 R2 and am going to following to following guide to "migrate" all my data into drive pool: http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q5463715 Everything makes sense to me but how does drivepool handle files that have been duplicated via WHS and exist on multiple drives under the same path? Is it smart enough to realize this and handle it appropriately or will it start freaking out that there's the same file on multiple drives? Do I need to enable duplication on the respective drivepool's folder first before moving the files from the old WHS DE directory (I think this is the case if I'm reading it correctly)? or should I disable duplication on WHS first, make sure there's only one copy of files, then move the files? Thanks,
  15. Thanks for the reply. One more additional question... Are there any issues running drivepool on an Atom Processor? I know Windows 2012 R2's is suppose to run on an atom processor but would drivepool cause a lot of additional load? I know DEmigrator and searchindexer absolutely thrash the atom processor on my Acer H340 running WHS v1....
  16. Hi Guys, I'm a soon to be user trying to migrate from my aged WHS v1 box and was thinking of using drivepool. The simplicity appeals very much to me but I have a few questions I was hoping someone could shed light on... 1) My NAS is 95% filled with large video files ranging from 1 GB up to 15-20 GB. I have LOTS of these. how does drivepool handle duplication and balancing of many large files? especially when many of them are continually opened and read (ie. torrent seeds)? 2) If I store a VM disk image on a duplicated drive pool , I have the option of splitting up the file into 2GB chunks. Does drivepool handle a single large 50GB file better or will it handle 25 2GB files easier? Will the entire file have to get re-duplicated if a small part of it changes or is drivepool smart enough to only write the part of the files that change? 3) What's your opinion on requiring ECC memory in a home NAS solution? Does drivepool use a lot of memory and benefit from ECC memory? What is the expected memory load on a 7TB drive pool with duplication? 4) How does drivepool handle corrupted files? If a drive goes south and files become unreadable or corrupted, how does drivepool prevent that corrupted file from propogating and overwriting the good version? Thanks everyone!
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