[Raid5/50 for duplication only?]

So my DrivePool is about ~50tb and I just came into a new chassis, raid controller and 10+ 3tb drives.  I do plan to migrate everything to the new chassis.

I was thinking about creating a raid 50 from some of the drives and use it just for folder duplication.

 

Has anyone tried that?

I know I can do software raid with other software, but I have this nice controller and all these drives, so just thinking I might do Raid50 for backups and folder duplication.

[Keeping a record of what's on each disk?]

I thought of this also when i had a few drives die.

I found Karen's Power Tools - Directory Printer to work well

I haven't thought about doing it automated yet, but I'll try the suggestions above.

[onboard controller died, so missing 4 disks not sure how to proceed]

Setup, 4 drives using the onboard controller and 9 drives using a raid controller.

So the pool is 13 drives, so the onboard controller died, so 4 drives went missing.

I can connect them via usb and still get the data off of them, but they are marked missing in drive pool.

 

I bought a few drives to add to the raid controller so i can move the data off the 4 drives.

I can physcially get to the hard drives data via windows explorer whenever I plug the drive into my usb enclosure, but Drivepool still says it's missing.

 

When I try to remove it from DP, it says it can't remove b/c i have missing disk.

 

Would moving the data from the hidden folder (old 4 drives) to the new drives hidden folder (just added to the pool) work?

 

Not sure how I should proceed.

btw, all the data is unduplicated.

DrivePool 2.1.1.561 on Windows 7 64bit.