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    Direct copy to PoolPart hidden folder

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    Should be fine IF you have duplication turn off - but if i remember correctly turning duplication off may make the pool delete the copies automatically

    hence why it says to stop the service so that does not happen

    i would do a test on a small folder with only a few files and see if turning duplication off does what i remember

    DrivePool and Backup

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    i have seen this with files that get ms differences in timestamps which get detected by backup software and other software

    this can happen on a pool rebuild as well as moving files around due to balancers

    Maximum number of connected drives?

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    wow 56 usb drives

    looking at the wdf_violation its a "driver" related issue

    if the sas controller works ok without usb drives and vice versa then its probably a conflict between the drivers

    which is at fault - difficult to say - could be the usb controllers at fault - as i guess you are using more than one type off the motherboard as they usually come with a couple of different types

    dont think its that you are over doing it - just getting bitten by a bug - as they work when used separately

    however - the sas card is the way to go if you can add another with a sas expander card or two -  rather than using usb

    there a lots of HP sas expanders on ebay for circa $20 that support 24 drives (and dont need to be plugged into the pci bus - just provide power via a molex connector and the performance will be much better than usb especially as you must have a daisy chain going on.

    Q: How fast does DrivePool re-measure your entire (USB) pool? A: ~21 TB/hour

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    For me a remeasure is about 80-90mins for 45TB with a similar number of disks - the make up of the files on the disk will affect this greatly - lots of small files = slow

    i recently got rid of 500k of images - which accounted for a lot of the time above - but have not remeasured since

    with the HDD DP disks connected to a 9211

    the speed is mainly affected by the files sizes/number, controller and HDD speed - cpu is only a very minor player in this

     

    Switch SATA Ports and DrivePool

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    Should be fine - i am in the process of moving/removing/replacing disks at the moment and DP does not care which sata port the disk is connected to

    only difference is that i dont use drive letters but mount points - so windows getting confused about drive letters is not something i see

    each disk has a unique poolpart - but as windows had a ghost drive which would have appeared with the same poolpart thats prob what caused DP to choke until you rebooted and it did its checks etc

    Delay Time for volumes to mounting - Questions

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    I have a new server that now boots considerably quicker than my old server - in just 5 seconds to the windows login screen

    as a consequence not all of the 20+ HDD i have - get a chance to mount in that time and DP then does a remeasure etc on every boot which i am trying to stop as its a long unnecessary process.

    So i would like to change the time that DP waits for the volumes to mount but its a bit confusing as there are three different options with "time" values 

    CoveFs_WaitForVolumesOnMount (Default: "True") - Some volumes arrive late in the boot process so DrivePool will wait for all the volumes to arrive before allowing the pool drive to mount. The delay is adaptive, so it will be different for each system. Turning this off might shorten boot times, but is not recommended because it could expose a partially populated pool drive to system services that start right after booting.
CoveFs_WaitForVolumesOnMountMs (Default: "10000") - How long to wait for all the volumes to arrive in MS.
CoveFs_WaitForKnownPoolPartsOnMountMs (Default: "10000") - (Newer pools may be aware of it's parts) If a pool is aware of how many pool parts it's made of, at mount time, it will wait for all of those pool parts to arrive before allowing the OS to finish mounting the pool.
CoveFs_WaitForPoolsAndPoolPartsAfterMountMs (Default: "10000") - How long the service will wait for all of the detected pools to finish mounting, and then for all of the known pool parts to get recognized on those pools.

    so 10 seconds is too quick

    do i need to change all three to a larger value

    or is the first option the one i need to change - so DP waits x seconds to "see" all the disks before it mounts the poolparts and the service runs up etc

    as i want the pool to mount as quick as it can without triggering a remeasure on each boot

    Just after some clarity

     

    Drivepool - Column Chooser

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    Drivepool Column Chooser on higher resolution displays appears off screen and is not accessible

    works fine on a 1920x1200 display

    not on a 4k display or 2560 x 1600

    It does briefly appear while you resize the window of the bowser but disappears when you stop resizing the window so is not useable 

    Cloud - Dashboard - Disk Names

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    There is a inconsistency between how the disks are named between Scanner and DrivePool

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    I would prefer the DP naming (mount point in this case) to the disk name used by scanner as its much easier to see which disk it is

    even better allow the user to define which parameter is used for the name of the disk in the dashboard as its easier to have the dashboard up to see "Generally" whats going on across pools etc

     

    Thanks

    Directory\File Queries

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    DP does not have a cache of files etc

    it provides the virtual disk to windows and it takes over from there

    having more memory will improve things to a degree as 8gb is very much on the low side for a server with potentially millions of files in a pool of that size

    the performance will depend on the cpu used, memory and the speed of the disks used

    i have a similar setup with 31 disks 7 ssds and 24 HDD and the speed is generally fine

    my media server (Emby) can scan the disks in a couple of minutes when checking for new additions etc - the initial scan is slow as it has to process all the files and can take a few hours when doing a new setup - but after that its not an issue

    i have had over 500k of photos in emby and after the initial scan it was not an issue for the media server to find and access files

    i think you are worrying about something that is not going to affect a well specified server - as windows 2019 is designed to be a file server as well as all the other stuff it can do. Yes if you had all SSD's things would be snappier and reading lots of small files (always slow) would be quicker but its not practical unless you are Elon Musk and have money to burn. 

    Give it a try - you can always move them back if performance is not good enough etc -i think you will find it will be fine

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