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The issue does not present itself when downloading to a specific drive, i.e. "E:/PoolPart.dsfiuetc/TV Shows/blahblah", only when downloading to "M:/TV Shows/blahblah" I'll eventually replace all of the externals with internals in a NAS but I don't have that much wiggle room in my budget at the moment. For now, is my best option to download straight to the drives until getting more reliable replacements for those externals?

It looks like all of the hard drives that are disconnecting and reconnecting themselves are external, so good call on that one. They are all using the cables supplied with them so they should be fine, but I could grab a few new ones on Amazon to be safe. I don't have the scanner installed, I wasn't going to install that until I had a little more room in my budget for extra hard drives to utilize it with, but I can try that. How will I know if it is "working"? I'm not using any aftermarket enclosures, I'm just using the ones that come with Seagate Expansions and WD My Books.

Well there isn't just one drive that's dropping out. It is always two or three drives at the same time, and they are not always the same drives. When I download a torrent, sometimes it will go through just fine but other times it will make that add/remove hardware sound and pop up with 2-3 drive windows as if they had been unplugged/replugged. Some of the drives this is happening to are external (USB) and others are internal (SATA). uTorrent never had an issue before DrivePool was installed. Not exactly sure what you mean by "laid out", but I have 1 SSD for my OS which is not included in the pool, and 11 drives (internal and external) ranging from 1TB - 3TB, all included in the Drivepool I titled Media, on the M:/ drive.

Ever since installing drivepool I have been unable to download torrents over the size of 2GB or with more than 5+ files in a directory. It errors out with "Error: Incorrect Function" after 5-10 seconds, every time. So it might not work for everyone.

Has there been any update to this yet? I'm still unable to download reliably with uTorrent. If this can be fixed in any way I will be purchasing the program as soon as my trial is up... but if not, I will unfortunately have to look for another solution. I'm sorry I changed the topic of this issue in the middle of the thread, looking back I should have started a new one for the new problem.

Still getting an error after selecting that option, it doesn't seem to make a difference in this case. Did the log upload? Did it show anything?

I do not have "pre-allocate all files" checked in the settings of uTorrent, should I? I didn't know what it did until looking it up just now to be honest with you. I'm on Win8.1 64-bit, using uTorrent 2.2.1 and DrivePool 2.1.1.561.

Okay, I got it to replicate while logging. Hopefully it will show something. Should be uploaded now.

Some drives are SATA, some are external USB (mostly 2.0). The SATA drives are connected to onboard ports. Not sure about whether I'm using chipset drivers or the generic windows ones - I would assume the generic windows ones. I watched the Event Viewer while trying to download and it came up with lots: Three of these in a row all in one second (2:28:48PM): and two of these a couple of seconds after each other (2:28:48PM and 2:28:50PM): One second later (2:28:51PM): and then 3 information level events 7 seconds later (2:28:58PM): As you may have guessed, this time 3 hard drive windows opened up as if they had been disconnected/reconnected. ...so then I just tried replicating it again with DrivePool logging enabled, and now it's not happening. haha. Not sure what to think of that...

Okay so all my files are correctly on the drivepool virtual drive so that my media center reads them from the right location... this part of it is working perfectly. However, I've run into one issue: When downloading with uTorrent to a folder on the drivepool, after about 15-30 seconds of downloading, the torrent will give an error, my system gives the "add/remove hardware" sound, two of my hard drive windows pop up (as if I've just plugged them in) and I get a DrivePool error about not detecting a specific drive. The combination of two drives that seem to get disconnected and reconnected are not always the same hard drives, so that makes me think that it's not the hard drives messing up... but something to do with uTorrent downloading to a directory on the drivepool. Any ideas about that? Thanks!

Looks like this worked perfectly!! Thank you! If this doesn't give me any problems, I'll definitely be getting the paid version

I have 11 hard drives ranging from 1TB - 3TB, some internal, some external. Instead of having JBOD I opted for Liquesce drivepooling for awhile so that I only had one visible hard drive in "My Computer" (other than my "C:"), that was the "M:/" drive with 23TB total. After setting that up, I would go into the M: drive and it would list all the folders from all the hard drives in that pool. However, I've run into several issues with that program so I've decided to try this one instead. However, after adding all of my drives to a pool, going into the drive from My Computer shows that the drive is empty, even though it says "494 GB free of 23.1 TB" before you click it. Hopefully I'm making sense, but I just want all the files and folders on my 11 hard drives to show up as one drive so I can have one place for all my files instead of having to look through hard drive after hard drive searching for the right thing. Thanks!