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I never updated this thread, but I encrypted my drives one by one, with no availability impact. I now have my entire pool encrypted at it works just as normal. Fantastic!

No.  the cache has to be on a local, non-removable, non-dynamic drive.  
Yes.  When mounting the drive, set the cache type to "Fixed".   You can then specify a size, and it will never exceed that.  However, keep in mind that a small size like this, you may/will run into performance issues, and a LOT of writes, as data will be moved in and out of the cache constantly.   The larger the cache is, the better.  
You have to detach the drive to move the cache, period.    However, the data on the drive will remain intact.   And it will quickly relearn... but with a small cache, it will likely not benefit from the learning, and will constantly be dumping everything in it to make room for the new data. 
 
Also, with a small cache, you may/will see performance issues, as there are limits where we start throttling to prevent the cache from running out of space.   With a 2GB cache (or really, anything under 10GB), you will likely run into this constantly.

I am switching my main storage system to Synology (I really need parity..) however I have a 1TB OneDrive for Business volume mounted on my fileserver VM using CloudDrive
 
CloudDrive has worked perfectly for all 26 days of my trial, and I have not had a single problem. So I have no desire to stop using it, and will be purchasing a licence. However I am only getting my Synology in around 2 weeks time so I want to prepare for how it will work, and if I can keep using it how I want to
 
I currently have an ESXi server which has my FS01 VM. It has a 30GB vDisk and has an LSI HBA passed through to it. When I setup my CloudDrive, I just threw the cache onto one of my drives (Used in DrivePool), however when I get my synology the FS01 VM will no longer have any direct attach storage. It will only have the 30GB vDisk
 
1. Can I store the cache file on the NAS?
 
2. Can I store the cache file on my 30GB volume, and tell it to use NO MORE than lets say 2GB of space? 
 
3. How do I "move" the cache file while leaving everything else as is?
 
I have no data pinned, as its purely a backup 
 

I switched it to the Automatic (Delayed) option and I think it might have solved it, although I have only rebooted twice in total so far

So far so good, Ill wait a little while longer before calling it completely solved on my end, but I think its fixed

I just tried out CloudDrive for mouting my OneDrive For Business storage as a drive letter, so Syncovery can back-up to it. Holy smokes it works great
 
It literally just works.
 
With Syncovery connecting to OneDrive For Business I was having problem after problem, so I just deleted all the data and went with Cloud Drive, now its working perfectly 

For a while now I have had issues where files will not duplicate properly after downloading and moving them, It doesn't happen all the time, and I have been busy so I never bothered looking into it
 
Today I noticed that a TV show would not duplicate
 

 
So I checked to see if anything had it open, and it didn't. HOWEVER my "deluge" account which is used by Deluge running on a CentOS 7 VM had the original download file open, which no longer existed. I thought this was weird, because how can you have a file open which doesn't exist?
 

 
So I closed the file, and then the file in /Data/Media/TV Shows/wherver duplicated fine
 
Is this a DrivePool issue, or a Windows SMB issue, or a CentOS/Deluge issue?
 
Related to this, sometimes I have a problem where I will download a file, move it and find that the file is now also back in the downloads folder, because Deluge is still hanging onto it. Closing the session/open file makes the file disappear 
 
When I add a torrent, the file will start downloading to \\FS01\Data\Downloads\Incomplete, and when done it will move to \\FS01\Data\Downloads. From there I will remove the torrent from Deluge, and move it to \\FS01\Data\Media\ and then a subfolder
 
All of these folder are on the same pool. \\FS01\Data\Downloads is NOT duplicated, the rest of pool is 
 
Does anyone have any suggestions on how I should resolve this?

Excuse the title typo!
 
My TV Shows folder which is around 6TB just decided to switch itself from 2x to 1x.
 
I noticed when I saw that I had over 12TB free space, and panicked that I lost a bunch of data somewhere. After looking into DrivePool, it was balancing. I waited for it to finish and it said everything was good. Checked duplication, and it was set to x1
 
Now I am duplicating the data again, but if I didn't notice and list a drive, I would have been toast
 
Any idea why it would do this?

I currently have a filserver VM running Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard, and its running DrivePool 2.2.0.734. I had some weird issue, and Christopher (I think) said I should grab that one. That solved the problem and its been running file ever since
 
Now I re-building my fileserver VM with Windows Server 2016 Standard. Should I grab the same Beta or should I grab a newer one?
 
Thanks!

Yeah BitLocker, I would maybe look into something more advanced, but I am not too concerned about security other than an average Joe criminal stealing all my stuff and just plugging it in and getting sensitive documents. So BitLocker is more than enough for what I need, especially since it "Just Works"

I never updated this thread, but I encrypted my drives one by one, with no availability impact. I now have my entire pool encrypted at it works just as normal. Fantastic!

Thank you,
 
I have taken the advice and upgraded to the the 734 build and all looks good so far