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    Atarres got a reaction from Antoineki in Recommended setup for Google drive?   
    I'm in the middle of doing a setup on G-suite. Seeing they don't cap space (yet) I want to go that route (I'll upgrade to the required users if it becomes an issue later on). For a cloud drive setup (aiming at 65TB to mirror local setup) Any recommended methods for storage? I saw another post here recommending various prefetch settings, however was not clear on whether new drives should be sized a certain way? Various 2TB drives or max out at 10TB for each one then combine into one share using DrivePool?
     
    Ultimately hoping to get an optimal setup out of the gate. And probably would not hurt to document that here for others to follow as well. Ideally using it with DrivePool so that it can be treated as one massive drive. 
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    Atarres got a reaction from KiaraEvirm in Any hope for CD on Linux?   
    Just curious if there are plans or even consideration as to going into Linux?. Cloud Drive on Linux would be an absolute killer app due to it's flexibility and ease of use. Altho having a CLI version as well might be preferable for many. Hopefully it's in the cards. 
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    Atarres got a reaction from Christopher (Drashna) in REFS format for CloudDrive on ACD?   
    Thanks this is good info. I have multiple backup tools (backblaze for cold storage) so not terribly concerned IF/WHEN I lose data on ACD. But thanks for the info. I'll stick to NTFS then. 
     
    My main use case with ACD is just simply to store an online mirror of existing data on local storage. IF I were to lose it, I would still have the constantly updating cold storage backup to rely on. I additionally use it as a home surveillance drive as well. 
     
    But yea I work with AWS as a DevOps Eng, so I get the aggravations in dealing with Amazon and ACD on your end (with all the weird issues they have and undocumented limitations) and why ACD is no good for important info. 
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    Atarres got a reaction from Ginoliggime in REFS format for CloudDrive on ACD?   
    Is this recommended? Or even necessary? I guess my main concern is bitrot. I lost an (empty) drive to this and am currently attempting recovery operations as a test to see if I can recover from this state. I got the dreaded REFS The Volume repair was not successful. 
     
    This tells me that REFS was corrupted in some form. While I lost no data, I want to see if I can recover from this state. (running a days long operation to recover the ACD). 
     
    In the meantime I just want to know if it is a recommended to run REFS on an Amazon Cloud Drive. 
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    Atarres got a reaction from Christopher (Drashna) in Did an inplace upgrade no longer see drives!   
    Yea it was a nasty one for sure. I usually only contact support as a last resort :S but you got me up and running and I appreciate that greatly. I will take your advice and go back to the CB build of windows, seems a number of issues with the build that did not get exposed until I did this inplace install. Rolling back seems the safest best at this point. 
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    Atarres got a reaction from Christopher (Drashna) in Refs and storage spaces   
    I have this setup. I had to boot into a WinPE setup and set up individually formatted REFS drives 7 of them @ 2TB each. No storage spaces. I installed DP on top of them, copied 270GB of data over to them and the performance was about 2x the speed I saw with the same hardware on Storage spaces. It also exceeded  a ZFS set up I had on the same hardware a while back as well. This combination has proven to be very fast. And with REFS as the underlying FS, my biggest concern is gone which is bitrot. 
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    Atarres got a reaction from Christopher (Drashna) in Interesting article about the pitfalls of ReFS and Storage Spaces.   
    I found that individually formatting drives as REFS adds the file integrity (preventing bitrot) and putting Drivepool on that is superior to Storage Spaces. You get the best of both worlds. Transferring data over on SSHDs onto Drivepool from main drive at about 154MBs.
     
    When I had the storage spaces setup it topped off at 80MBs and degraded to about 25 at times using the exact same drives. A real PITA when moving 100s of GB of data. So REFS (individual formatted drives) + Drivepool is pretty damn solid. 
     
    My setup uses all 3 products. I have 2 separate storage setups. A 12.7TB and a 50TB setup + a 10TB CloudDrive setup shared between both machines. I am considering upping that clouddrive setup to match my current storage to have a viable backup. 
     
    That said getting REFS formatted is a PITA on Windows 10. They blocked the ability to easily do it after anniversary update. Using the registry hack means it will break damn near everything in the system because the system now things its a WInPE setup. However a workaround is formatting the drives (at least 1) as REFS. IF you can format ALL in WinPE great, I had issues because WinPE was not able to read all my drives so I formatted what I could. 
     
    To workaround that I downloaded R-Studio Image (30 day trial works fine for this) and copied the partitions with the shrink/expand option in the event there was a size difference with the drive. This worked and now I have 7 2TB drives formatted in REFS with Drivepool. 
     
    As this setup is pretty new, I will give it a few weeks of shakedown time, but I will start to look at setting up games in there if the performance is solid.
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    Atarres reacted to Christopher (Drashna) in Refs and storage spaces   
    Thank you for the confirmation!
    I've been using the ReFS on the "temp" pool I've been using and it hasn't any issues either. 
     
    It sounds like there should be absolutely no issues with ReFS then.
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    Atarres reacted to jmone in Refs and storage spaces   
    Just reporting back after a couple of months with 0 issues using ReFS on both my pools.
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