[Drivepool writes files on old hdd.]

doing remeasure fixed my problem, hip hip hooray!

[Drivepool writes files on old hdd.]

6 minutes ago, fluffybunnyuk said:

Maybe it hates you too , like it hates me

Glad to hear it fixed it. The remeasure should go fine now.  You should make a note to check the corrupted file, and maybe restore it from a backup if necessary.

I've noticed drivepool has a preference for disks used to create a pool. So like in my example i had 2 disks hot, and cold. I used hot to create the pool, and it loved hot ever after. Sadly i needed it to prefer cold. My only solution was to hotswap them around in my chassis so hot became cold , and vice versa thus conning drivepool into using the cold one.

The short answer is probably "love".

Thanks for the info, i can at least stop searching for a solution now knowing the only way to fix it is to do the same thing you did.

[Drivepool writes files on old hdd.]

doing checkdisk fixed my corrupted file, i'm doing remeasure again as drivepool didnt finish remeasure because of the corrupted file.
Any ideas what may be causing drivepool to prefer to write on older hdd?

[Drivepool writes files on old hdd.]

thanks i have the stablebit scanner scanning the drive right now, should i stop it and do a checkdisk from properties instead?
also i wanna try removing my old hdd from the pool temporarily and add it again later to see if that fixes the drivepool's behavior, should i check the boxes "force damaged drive removal", duplicate files later and force close any open unduplicated files so drive pool dont start moving or copying files while removing the drive?

[Drivepool writes files on old hdd.]

After doing remeasure drivepool found a corrupt folder that i cannot delete, i tried the cmd way and couldnt delete it either, is there any other way?

[Drivepool writes files on old hdd.]

I tried remeasuring and it didnt fix the problem, but this did for few seconds

Unchecking in plugin settings the "Allow balancing plug-ins to force immediate balancing" , then drive pool started writing on new hdd but after a minute it went back to the old one.
What plug in setting could have drivepool keep preffering to write on old hdd instead of the new one i have pointed to write in ordered file placement plugin?

[Drivepool writes files on old hdd.]

12 hours ago, Christopher (Drashna) said:

It should only delete files that are duplicated and shouldn't be.  Or if you've changed it. 

However, it only delets the files if they have identical file paths (and therefore would be treated as the same file, by the pool).   You can have the same name for every file, but unless they're at the same file path, they're considered different files. 

Sounds great, thanks for the info Christopher.

[Drivepool writes files on old hdd.]

6 hours ago, Shane said:

Hmm. You've got the "respect real-time file placement" ticked, and I was under the impression that the OFP plugin was real-time for new files. Try a Remeasure.

But if it's not real-time, then you'd need to choose an Automatic balancing setting other than "Do not balance automatically" so it can be triggered.

Edit: I've made a feature request to have the DrivePool GUI explicitily indicate which balancers are "real-time" and/or can force immediate balancing.

Thanks i'll try remeasure, i had added an hdd in the past and drivepool did remeasure and i didnt have this problem only now that no remeasure was done.
Also when drivepool does remeasure it deletes duplicate files without telling me which files it deletes. Is it possible to view what drivepool deletes automatically during remeasure? As i have files with same name but are different and i'm afraid drivepool deletes them.

[Drivepool writes files on old hdd.]

4 hours ago, Shane said:

Check that the ordered file placement plugin isn't being out-prioritised by another plugin that would prefer to write to the older hdd.  Also check the Balancing options (Manage Pool -> Balancing -> Settings), particularly the "Plug-in settings" and "File placement settings" sections.

I disabled all other plugins except the file placement plugin and it still doing it.
I have attached a picture of my settings.
Do you think doing a remeasure could fix my problem?

[Drivepool writes files on old hdd.]

I added a new hdd to the pool and drivepool still writes files on the old hdd, I have specified in ordered file placement plugin for my new hdd to be first to write files on but drivepool still writes files on older hdd. Can you guys help me with this problem?

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Would it be better to use 10gb network cards?

Also is it possible to play a game that will be stored on my 2nd storage computer on my first one like you can play a game from external hdd without having to transfer it to the windows hdd?
Will my 2nd storage computer will require a gpu too?

Thanks for helping me out gtaus!

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I was looking on youtube a video and they used freenas but it erased all data on hdss and i read if you add hdds in the future they better be empty as they'll get erased too.
Is it better to keep drivepool and windows on the old pc and connect it with a cable to my new pc and use it like a usb or ethernet storage device?

Can you give me some advise guys how to go about this?

[Drivepool displays incorrect duplication amount.]

Remeasure fixed it! What recheck duplication does if there's no prior duplication? I hope i didnt mess up something as i clicked it before doing remeasure.

[Drivepool displays incorrect duplication amount.]

I moved my files to new hdds and drivepool thinks i duplicated these files and lists half of my space as duplicated. Will a recheck duplication under settings solve this issue?

I dont want any duplication in my pool and have it disabled, yet drive pool was trying to duplicate something, is this normal?

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I dont use duplication, currently i copy each hdd individually as i dont know better.

My pc gave me a blue screen recently while copying files from an old hdd to a new one. Could it be the new one or the old one that is problematic, what do you think guys?

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19 hours ago, Umfriend said:

Yes, drives larger than 2TB are not supported by MBR. So you had to convert to GPT if they were MBR. That did not increase space, it just allowed to access the entire drive.

You already have access to your entire 16TB drive.

Yeah that was it! I thought back then wrongly that it was giving access to the extra space that we cant touch now lol.

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I dont want the drive pool to duplicate itself to existing hdds but to the new ones. Is there a way to do it this way?

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Back into 2007-2008 there was a software that made hdds bigger than 1-2 tb be recognizable by windows and it was advertising that extra unused space can be used.

It was a software converting mbr to gpt or something like that, cant remember its name.

Thanks for the info everyone.

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