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Have searched for similar problems but it appears that most of the solutions revolve around update to a new beta - but i am on the latest 740 beta I have two pools on the same 2012r2 server - one balances fine the other will not I have the same settings on both - only SSD optimiser and scanner plugins active the non balancing pool shows it not 100% balanced via bar at bottom manual re balance - thinks about it for a few seconds but does not move any files set it to balance immediately with no time limit - no files moved set it to maintain 100% balanced - no files moved The main drive graphic shows that files should be moved (blue triangles) Its causing backups to fail as when A_SSD files up the backup fails with "..not enough space..." - happened two nights in a row now There is a difference between the pools in that the non balancing one is only partly duplicated - the other is fully duplicated The backup should be duplicated on the non working pool - hence why B_SSD is light blue Chris - Options??

Have you tried from an elevated command prompt window - i had this on a drive (non pool) a while back on Win 10

how much data is on the disk? a TB of data will take approx 3-4 hrs on a fast machine with fast HDD longer if you are doing other things on the PC

Hi Chris The Small pool - i figured out its because the drives are actually slightly different in size - bought a couple of months apart - and as only have two drives - that's why it pops up. Going back to the first post - any answers to the other way i have found to generate unusable - and specifically the over fill problem with the SSd Cache which sets it off?

Ok it was not clear which drive was which ok fine we will see if you are correct in a years time if mine fail Ha old school You can save a lot of space and have a better experience if you do rip and / or remux the video files - just ripped two Blu-rays (LOTR - extended edition 30GB for each file same movie split over two disks - joined together - remux'd to h265 file size went from 60GB to 12GB no loss of quality and plays fine. Have fun

lol you add extra info and explanation only after i point out what you could do i have three of those archive drives and you can use them as normal drives just dont expect the speeds of a full fat 8TB drive - they have can be written to like any other drive Setting up a duplication between pools is easy with something like syncbackse/pro and as you say is not a feature of DP itself You would use you first pool with kodi as thats where your movies are??? or are you still ripping your dvd' and blu-rays to iso and storing them that way and/or accessing them that way with Kodi? Yes the error reporting leaves a lot missing and why data x is being moved to drive y Those screen shots show disk2 data being moved to disk 3 - i think you said disk2 is an archive drive?

The life for your ssd is 150TB so 15Tb per year you are well under per year My 2012r2 is very chatty with its disk at about 4tb for 4-5 months If you look in scanner there is an almost constant read/write going on - i have yet to find the culprit(s) even with search turned off

I would prefere to keep everything in one pool. - OK As I see it, if I make a second pool and the Archive drives are full, I'm not guaranteed that new movies are duplicated. Why would they not be duplicated? - settings are by the pool - so put the two archives drives in a separate pool and turn on duplication sorted? Or keep one pool with duplication? The way it's intended to work now, the latest iso's are stored on the NAS drives if the Archive drives are full. The reason why I want to separate the iso's from the rest of the files is that the iso's are not likely to be changed in any way opposed to txt and jpg files. Sorry dont see how that affects anything other than drive running time I'm using my Movie folder as a Source for Kodi and must keep Library files in the same folder. - Kodi only see's the pool drive which presents the files as windows would - it cant see the poolpart directories across all the disks. For example Plex and Emby have no problem with this and neither should Kodi - if you have had problems in the past then that was for other reasons As for the new error - not seen that before - Chris might have a clue when he gets to this thread Have fun

Are you on the latest firmware? simplify your rules or disable them and run with less to see what happens split your pool into two and archive your iso's to the second pool

so if i understand correctly you only have iso's on your archive drives but DP is not moving other iso's to those disks? Its not clear what your question is as you appear to have micro managed the placement of file types?

its three+ years old i would plan for a replacement pronto keep a close eye on the 220's and see if its changing (which i suspect it is) SSD's only have so much life and when it runs out the disk goes read only how much has it written - its in the smart info further down

Win pro just runs headless - just need to ensure RDP is enabled IIRC its off by default - other than that you are good to go out the box You must be one of the few people in the world happy to watch 480p with 30-45% cpu Plex was transcoding that movie - if it was direct streaming then it would be similar to a file copy probably less than 5% - its the client software/device that determines if transcoding is needed or not Good Luck with getting some sleep

Ok my directions wont help if you cant get to the m/b bios One thing to check in the m/b bios is the boot order - it could be the lsi is trying to boot and as there is not bootable disk you get dead lock I suspect you can fix the boot order as the card will not be loaded when you are in the bios

Is it a new card or a used one If used it may well have some firmware setup still in the bios of the card If you search on flashing the card (most LSI are flashable) you could reset it and that may help get you to boot If you have a new ish m/b then it should be UEFI capable so you can boot to that - flash the card and reboot and hopefully the pc will boot If its new you might have a faulty card - do you have another pc to try it in? I have flashed my 9211 recently so have the steps to flash it - but it might be different for the 9207 (i guess it will be similar)

Yep it should work fine as you describe Only thing that will not work that well is the Plex server for any transcoding thats needed - you dont mention you clients to play any media as they dictate what does and does not need transcoding You can overcome this by making sure your media is in a format that the clients can play natively so your server streams the media directly If it were mine i would increase the Ram to give windows and plex room to breath say 8gb or 16gb but you could do that after you have it running to see if it needs it and its a cheap upgrade Have fun

can you format it on the host machine directly to 7.28TB as a single partition? It will need to be GPT to get more than 2.2TB is it connected to a different sata controller? is the controller set to AHCI? Win 7 32 bit only supports 2TB but Win 7 64 supports GPT so thats not your issue - so something is not getting passed through correctly Have you tried the vmware forums?

Well i created a new pool on a different machine (win 10 vs win 2012r2) and the UNusable is back After a lot of checking and messing around as nothing would clear it - no other data on the pool drives - no SVI and no Recycle bin - remeasure does not change the values - copying extra data to pool does not change the values Turning on duplication (other pool does not have this on) changes the value - tends to wander about - and finally settles on a new value I removed each disk in turn and deleted the volume and then recreated it and re added it to the pool The unusable returned until i had done each disk in turn - nothing special or different about the last disk I am very suspicious this is a bug in 740 as prior to changing to this version not seen this error Ha scratch that Unusable is back again! There are only two directories on the drives - recycle bin and poolpart Any explanation for the wired numbers????

I added a new disk but the Unusable message did not reappear - so guess its been cleared Will try copying some data to see if i can get some unusable back again

Ok will try as have some more data to copy across to the pool and a another disk to add to the pool

scanner and SSd Optimizer work together fine - its what i have setup on my pools

As an update i noticed today when adding a drive to the pool showing the error above that the Unusable flag came back but only briefly (few seconds) with the 702GB total it started with The pool is back without any Unusable flag now - thought it might help with finding the issue

As i understand it when the SSd cache becomes full it should fall back to the Archive drives But If you are copying large volumes of data (internally within the server in this case) it will fail 50% of the time Basically what appears to be happening is If the ssd's are beyond their limit % full setting the next file will fall back to the archive drives - as expected - (in my case 95% full) However if the ssd's are not at or near the % full setting and the next file exceeds the remaining space on the ssd's (large video files) then the copy fails with a STREAM(????) error - not good for unattended large copies If you get the pool to balance and create sufficient space the copy will proceed - however this "paused" copy has an unwanted side effect as it generates a large amount of "Unusable for duplication" data in my case over 700GB worth - checking the disks sizes and comparing file size totals - with checking for hidden files and running a full chkdsk /f on all drives did not show any errors or orphaned files - its appears to be a bug in the calc by DP - as copying more data to the pool reduces the "Unusable for duplication" by the amount copied . In my case there are no other files on these disks only the pool part dir, recycle bin and SVI - both SVI and recycle bin are turned off and empty as they were the first things i checked. Have a suspicion that the amount of "Unusable for duplication" is the size of the copy which "fails" and if you have more than one it is cumulative - difficult to check as it depends what files are copied and their sizes to induce the error. I did reboot to see if it would solve the issue - no joy I remeasured the pool a couple of times - no joy i just copied 203GB of data to the pool and the "Unusable for duplication" dropped from 502GB to 299GB - as each file was copied the total dropped by that amount during the copy. Doing a second copy of 296GB to see if i end up with ~ 3GB left in "Unusable for duplication" - total is dropping by file copied as seen in first copy. [edit] - ended up with 3.34GB unusable left after copy. Now it is back to normal as have copied more data across to the pool and do not have Unusable anymore. DP version 740 Beta Win 2012r2 SE Pool in question is not duplicated Pool is second pool on server - if that makes any difference If you need any logs etc let me know

lol - yes have three of the 950 Pro's doubt you need to raid 0 them as you are unlikely to have anything that will stress them Make sure you get Samsung Magician and the Samsung NVME drivers as Windows 10 only has a basic driver IIRC scanner might have issues with getting the SMART info off the drives - but it will get fixed im sure Make sure the NVME drives are very well cooled as the run very hot 60-80c in operation and can easily overheat - then they throttle their speed Enjoy

Hi Couple of things to check Does the LSI card provide Sata @ 3g or 6g and does the Intel expander provide 3g or 6g for sata also - IIRC as i looked at those cards along with others i think they "only" give 3g Sata - if you are using DP then it wont be an issue as you are not going to max it out anyway. This is moot if you are using SAS drives. Cheaper alternatives for the LSI - look for 9211-8i ~$60 and the HP Expander will do 24 drives for approx ~$30 on second hand market (have two ) Another thing to check is the power per rail that the PSU provides - depending on the number of drives you will be running check the amount of power that can be provided to the HDD - some cheaper lines of PSU are geared to providing most of the power to the GPU(s) and M/B and the HDD get whats left I have a MX300 (750gb) and they are ok had no issues but the Samsung 850 Pro are a bit faster and you get a better warranty - so you get what you pay for Dont forget your CPU cooler - i would look at the AIO water cooling units from Coolermaster - although you might have a challenge mounting the radiator with in the Norco case - possibly on the new fan wall? Have fun

ok good get the whips out an encourage Alex to finish the cloud stuff so we can have a few new feature on DP please :)