Thanks for the replies - they are very helpful.
I don't mind that the files are potentially on different drives - I'm not worried about that. With my setup I have to have some type of pooling, otherwise it is way too big of a maintenance nightmare to consider.
Reason why I am uninstalling - I have a very complex setup. My main server (running Windows 8.1 - going to redo it with Windows Server 2012 R2) has 24 drives connected to an Areca ARC-1680ix-24 raid card and present the drives as JBOD. I have a second Areca ARC-1680ix-16 that connects 2 other systems via HP SAS expanders that add 24 drives from the second machine and 14 drives from the third.
The drive pool initially had just the 24 local drives, but over time I've added the other 38 drives (minus the 9 drives for snapraid triple parity on each server).
For whatever reason, I'm having some stability issues, though it was working nicely for the past 2 months. There are several issues that don't appear to be related and I am looking to deconstruct my setup to eliminate complexity and make troubleshooting a bit easier. I am also looking to possibly start over with a better OS (I initially tried going with Windows 2012 R2 but my motherboard - Asus P9X79 WS - does not support it and I was having issues locating drivers back in June).
I am interested in using Drivepool in the future, but I don't know if I'm having issues with it playing nice with Snapraid. I only want the pooling feature - not any of the duplication or auto balancing as that messes up Snapraid. I thought I had it configured that way, but there doesn't appear to be a lot of control over that.
Anyways - thanks again for all your help. I'm going to tear the server down and replace the SAS to SATA cables as that might be one of the issues (drives randomly not showing up to the OS, but after reboots they do... mostly).
If there is a guide for using Drivepool with Snapraid - I would be very interested.
-dc