Hakuren

W7 64b from beginning. No reinstalls. Nothing changed. It worked perfectly at first, started suddenly like 2-3 months ago, after 2-3 days it become simply ridiculous. I've removed it (SMART is monitored on controller anyway) and after few months (since previous Win update session which was in mid Oct 2015) downloaded some patches including many NET. Full of hope installed again, but no change. So I've removed Scanner again and returned to controller monitoring. Version of the SBDP is 2.1.1.561. OK, I will upload that data at some time in the future.

It's seems a bit weird but I get every day errors about SMART, but all drives are in perfect working order. When I click on Scanner icon in the tray I get .NET framework error like one enclosed. If I pick Continue it will permanently stay in the tray spamming errors. If I pick Quit error and icon are gone permanently. Funny thing about this whole puzzle is that Scanner worked perfectly for hmm... since I bought it which is some months. Then suddenly one day about 2 months ago it went with this rubbish error. So to help myself I've simply removed it (controller do this thing for itself) on temporary basis thinking it may help. In the mean time I've installed batch of updates from MS (with whole W10 circus I do updates every 5-6 months on my W7 and always read the data for each update if available). Thought that new NET patches helped returned with Scanner and sure again, like 0.5 second after install was finished same stupid error appeared. I haven't got a clue what may be the reason behind it.

Not to brag or anything, but I'm that mystery 'someone on OCN'. I'm glad you went with my suggestion. I'm pretty certain you won't regret it. SBDP is excellent piece of software.

Thanks. Implemented. Will see tomorrow how it performs. 1 drive finished which is success in itself with default settings. I really don't want to move past 4 HDDs now. I'm probably terminally addicted to flash and just can't stand spinning media anymore. LOL Quite annoyed that HAMR technology which - announced like 50 times already - is still in the doldrums. With 2 like 200TB drives I wouldn't even need a pool Word (or more) of clarification. I don't use any network storage. DP is not running on a server but on my primary workstation (CaseLabs TH10A, it holds a loooot of stuff). Never used NAS, never will. Everything external is DAS cold storage which as name suggest is used only when I acquire sufficient amount of new data to move something more substantial. BTW: DP works perfectly well with my 8 bay Fantec USB3 QB-XU8S3-6G (clone of a clone of MediaSonic Probox and many others) enclosures. Was thinking about Thunderbolt but whole circus with certification and often truly ridiculous pricing I decided against. As for SSDs. I really arriving at the conclusion it's better to bunch like 16x 250 GB drives for RAID60 than toy with pool (these ToughArmor 8x2.5" enclosures are really cute, tiny and hold bags of drives - already obtained one and will get quite few of those + another expander if cash flow permits). With regard to TRIM. Well it's not that catastrophic. I think its relevance is vastly over hyped (except critical applications). I did experiment with SSDs connected in old X58 system via first motherboard then 6805 and then 71605. Normal volumes and RAIDed. Same drives were moved and I never took care of TRIM thingy. After ~4 years of 12-15/h use I dismantled arrays and took all drives for a "service" and discovered only 1 out of 4 shown 3% drop in life expectancy (that 1 was used as system boot drive for about 2 years) with rest in tip top shape. Because of SSD superior transfers it's not end of the world if there a bit of delay with writes. I have 2 SSD arrays and all of them perform quite well. Read is blazing fast (talking R10) with write hit with like 30% penalty. My fingers itching for more SSDs in my case, but I try to resist and see what X-Point vel Optane (what a stupid name) will bring to the table. 750s are worth every [put your currency in here] can't wait for 2016. I've mentioned 750 above, but my only concern was operating temperature. With smartools I'm now calm. Was worried a bit it getting too hot, but after few runs of monitoring it never passed 35C so no problems there.

Hi guys. First post here. I wonder if going full SSD Pool is a good idea. While with HDDs it makes sense with SSDs it seems like it's more beneficial to RAID0 bunch of them and then copy everything to HDD only pool. Or abandon pool and go big array way (like 16 drives R60). I would love to [sllooowwwwllllyyy] get rid myself of HDD ballast. Noisy, clunky and reliability is iffy with some and better with others. Problem is size and price. I can order 8x 4TB HDDs in a instant, you can't do that with SSDs unless you have Arab sheik as an uncle . Right now went through some modifications as my Adaptec 71605 didn't initialized at all on my X99 board. After long wait finally changed it to 8405+Intel expander RES3FV288, only by name because it's re-branded Adaptec 82885T for (equivalent of) ~50USD less, which is nice. For now have mix setup with 2 arrays of HGST 3TBs and 5TBs + 4x4TB HGST drives configured into pool with triple duplication. 3&5 TB part will be removed in the near future and moved to old X58 system. How fully SSD pool affect performance and life of SSD? Of course advantage of pool is obvious. No need to buy wholesale drives like in the case of RAID array, but will frequent duplication wear much faster NAND than for example R10 or 60? I know that SSDs get massive write hit when RAIDed into any redundant kind of array 10/5/6/50/60. Tested that first hand and really interested on the input of more knowledgeable folks than myself. The only gripe I have with StableBit DrivePool is Scanner part. I reinstalled it again and with some tweaks finally got SMART of HDDs but not SSDs or NVMe 750s (for now only smartools returns any data). Still it takes days to scan anything (HDDs). For now disabled scanning the arrays because it's pointless. I would have to prevent any operations on both arrays for Scanner to work which is simply impossible. Prefer to configure controller to scrub drives on its own. Beginning to think that I should abandon that also on newly created pool. Controller reports SMART OK, without any dark-magic. When I order verification on a drive it just starts where ended previous day. SB Scanner just restarts and grinds surface for 12-15 hours and can't finish before workstation is powered down. At the moment it slowly crawling past 64.8% of first drive. It will never finish that today. Probably my last attempt with running Pool&Scanner together. Will see in next 5 hours or so if at least 1 drive is done.