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    Another drive has been hit with disk errors

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    Well, glad to hear that it was a simple "user error" then! 

     

    Just out of curiousity. If i have a disk drive that is hit with disk errors, when i mount it. Windows prompts scan and fix or ignore. How do i go about recovering and fixing this drive. I have an old drive that is currently in that state. And just in case my old drive has that issue i want to know what i am able to fix it and bring it back from the dead.

    Unchecking upload threads gets ignored and comes back checked when trying to stop uploads

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    At the present.  When you need to kill off upload, you need to clear cache and let system recover.

    found that out by trying to be careless and having too much waiting to upload.

     

    BTW.  Bandwidth Cap control is also best kept in router and modem control.

    I am looking into using several guest modems for cloud uploads.

     

    Not necessarily, You can just stopped the upload threads and it will stop uploading. Clearing cache alleviates the cached drives space. I have since moved things around to give more space to my cache drives and have it dedicated strictly for those purposes.

    Disk suddenly asking to be formatted.

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    Whatever you do, if you want to recover the data, don't format it. Is the disk showing up as "RAW"? What was the format before? ReFS? NTFS? 

     

    So i just left the disk and it eventually fixed itself. It was downloading stuff i disabled upload threads and finally mounted with the correct Drive Letter. If it goes RAW it compeltely breaks. I have had that happen once already and man it destroyed a 20TB drive.

    Disk suddenly asking to be formatted.

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    My disk lost its letter drive and now Windows cannot see it. Disk Management still does, and it is asking me to format the disk. I am wondering if this is ok to do, or is my data gone?

     

    EDIT: Looks like letting it mount and download some info from the disk fixed the issue. No format necessary

    Looking to tweak some settings

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    I'd say open up your forward to something higher. Like 400 MB, and your cache size should be bigger. Otherwise it will use the drive as a passthrough and its not great. And if you change the minimum download size when mounting a drive to 20MB you should start maxing out your speeds.

    Noticed something interesting with my drives

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    I have two drives atm.

     

    Provider: Google Drive

    Encryption: No

    Drive Creation: I can't remember but a while ago

    Storage Chunk size: 10 MB

    everything else is the same default settings

     

    Provider: Google Drive

    Encryption: Yes

    Drive Creation: I can't remember one of the newer releases .800~

    Storage Chunk size: 20 MB

    everything else is the same default settings

     

    One note is the encryption drive is currently in a state of chaos where it has errors on it, but i cannot fix the errors partially because half way through the drive dismounts/disconnects and after that the scan fails and i cannot fix it. But i have seen that that original drive i made a while ago has incredible speeds. Close to 300 Mb/s, the encrypted drive gets around 80 Mb/s, I thought maybe it was the encryption issue so i tried to make a new drive no encryption same chunk size. And it only gets about 80 Mb/s as well. I am curious what is causing it to have such good speeds? Is it a case of the errors on the drive so it's overpulling? Just curious. And thought it was an interesting topic of conversation

     

    I also just joined that twitter contest so hope to have a free copy of the cloudDrive! Great product as always

    Expand/Rename existing cloud drives

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    Hi, Thanks for the tip. I have resized the drive, it shows the new size in the StableBit UI however in windows explorer it still shows the old size, even though I have unmounted and remounted the drive. Any tips?

     

    What size are you expanding it from? If you were below 2 TB and then decided to go above 2 TB it will not work, because it is likely formatted in MBR and needs to be on GPT. 

    Increase Sector/Chunk size

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    Hi there, I started with a CloudDrive of 10TB I have since used the "Resize" option to expand this to 100TB. The new size is reflected in the CloudDrive UI but not in windows. If I take a look at the drive in Disk Management I can see that the extra space is there as unallocated space. If I try to expand the drive I get the following error: "The volume cannot be extended because the number of clusters will exceed the maximum number of clusters supported by the file system".

     

    Basically my question is, is it possible to increase the sector/chunk size of a CloudDrive.

     

    Thanks.

    It depends on how you set the cluster size. Since you have had a 10TB it should automatically be set to GPT. Can you shrink the drive? Because if you extend it at a smaller increment it should extend it correctly. It might be that you have moved it above a certain threshold based on your OS and your cluster size.

     

    Theoretical NTFS limit is 256. And also you can use the PoolDrive? that stable bit offers as well. It will give you a way to pool multiple drives together.

    CloudDrive performs recovery every time I restart (and setup advice)

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    I have been using CloudDrive for two weeks as a trial and I am actually very happy with the solution. I have set up two Google accounts and have made a DrivePool between the two that mirrors everything.

     

    So setup is:

    C: SSD 500GB - Main drive - not used with CloudDrive or DrivePool

    X: HDD 3TB - Secondary drive - used for data before moved to DrivePool

    E: Google Drive 1 - 100TB (not used directly - located on normal HDD X:)

    F: Google Drive 2 - 100TB (not used directly - located on normal HDD X:)

    G: DrivePool (mirrors everything to E: and F:)

     

    Now I have learned that I should probably have placed E and F on seperate drives. X is already holding data so when I move from X to G I am actually reading from X and writing back to X twice which is pretty slow. It is sometimes faster to copy to C first and then from C to G. If I find a solution to my problems I am going to buy another drive (maybe two) and place CloudDrives on seperate drives.

     

    BUT my question is: Every time I start my computer CloudDrive starts performing recovery. It claims that the previous shut down was not completed safely or that it has detected consistency issues with the drive. 

     

    Am I doing something wrong? It takes SOOO long (I have a 50/10mbps connection). I really want to purchase your product but not if this is going to happen every time I start up.

    What version are you on?

    CloudDrive without obfuscation?

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    I'm trying to get Plex Cloud and Google Drive setup. Plex requires the media to be 1:1, instead of the CloudDrive default of splitting up the files and making it only readable on CloudDrive. Is there any way to prevent this, I.E. have filename01.txt be filename01.txt on the Google Drive side?

     

    Don't use plex cloud instead just use vanilla plex it should work instead.

    Forgot to enable encryption on initial creation - do I need to start from scratch?

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    I totally missed the box to enable encryption on my StableBit folder and now I'm wondering if it's possible to turn encryption on after the fact (since some has already been uploaded), or if I should just delete everything and start from scratch?

     

    I don't see an option to enable it, so I'm leaning towards the last option.

     

    There isn't a way but know that there is a massive speed degradation, between the two.

    Prefetching on drive is only pulling 3 MB at a time

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    Ok so everything is fine but i have an issue with a corrupted drive. I am running chkdsk however it is trying to repair clusters but i cannot because it says it doesn't have any space left to repair it. I can't extend the drive because it has errors on it. It is reading 0KB even though it should have a few TBs of space. Seems like index of the drive is messed.

    Prefetching on drive is only pulling 3 MB at a time

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    Downloaded the RC .854 and it seems the prefetching is completely broken. It will prefetch at most 3 MBs at a time instead of 400 that i have set. It's a bit weird. 

    Also one more question. I have a drive on Google Drive, and it seems to have errors on it. I have ran the chkdsk but its stays on FOREVER like at least 2 weeks and it doesn't finish. Is there a way i can sort of move that drive into a new drive? And preserve the data from said drive? I am gonna run chkdsk again in the hopes of getting it fixed but just curious if it was possible or not.

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