wizziwig

Yes, that's exactly what I'm looking for. Didn't know UnRAID offered it. Unfortunately, I need a Windows based solution. So let's say that I want to do this folder selection and copying manually (just copying folders around using Windows explorer), completely outside of DirvePool control or knowledge. Can DrivePool be used simply as a tool to combine the folder structures of all my individual drives under a single drive letter or path? I don't want it to do any balancing or management at all and leave all files where they are. Can it combine any folders with same root name from each drive so they show up together in a single folder for easier sorting. For example, take d:\movies, e:\movies, and f:\movies and make them all show up under a virtual drive x:\movies containing the content of each individual "movies" folder. This way I can scroll through a single list of all my movies instead of having to visit each drive's movie folder.

Looking at the documentation, I thought that the placement rules only apply to a post-processing balancing operation? Meaning that when I first copy the folder into the pool, the contents would be scattered across all drives and only consolidated later on to a single drive during some kind of optimization pass. Also regarding the rules themselves, wouldn't I need to create a separate rule for every single movie title folder? I have over 200 movies. Or is there a way to create a rule that is smart enough to realize all files under a single BDMV folder need to be in a single drive regardless of what the parent folder structure looks like?

I'm considering setting up DrivePool but have a few questions before I try the product. My NAS currently has about 8 drives full of BDMV Bluray disc backups. Each drive has a Movies folder which contains individual folders for each movie using the movie title as folder name. In each movie's folder there is a BDMV folder containing the movie's files and folders for menus, extras, and parts for branching titles. As an example, it looks like Movies->Title->BDMV->Random_Movie_Files_and_Folders. 1) When you play a single movie, it may access several files over the course of the movie. Is there a way to setup DrivePool so that it keeps all of the files inside each movie's "Title" folder on a single drive? The reason I need this features, is because I don't want the movie player to pause in the middle of a movie while it's waiting for some drive to spin-up from suspend. If all the files are on a single drive, it will spin-up once and stay running until I'm done watching the movie. Most drive pooling software out there would spread the movie across all drives and would cause constant pauses while drives with specific files are powered up. 2) Assuming DrivePool can do what I want, how much micro-management will be required? When I'm adding a new movie folder under Movies/, will it keep the files together automatically or do I have to go back later to tell it to keep that specific Title folder on a single drive? Will I have to wait while it does maintenance to move the files to a single drive or can that be done the very first time I'm filling the pool drive with this new TItle folder? 3) When I'm accessing the pool drive main directory at Movies/, will DrivePool spin-up all of my 8 drives in order to display the top-level Titles in the folder? 4) Can I delete a movie title folder from the pool drive directly or do I have to find the specific drive the folder is on and delete it manually? Thanks.