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27 minutes ago, Christopher (Drashna) said:

Open up Disk Management, and extend the partition.

However, DO NOT make the partition more than 60TB. Ever.  

If you do, you may (will) lose the ability to run CHKDSK passes on the drive. 

The reason for this, is that there appears to be a Windows bug which causes VSS to fail on large drives (larger than 63TB).  And since CHKDSK heavily relies on VSS... that means CHKDSK will fail to run, as well. 

You... can pool the partitions together, though. 

 

I did extend it to about 16TB. After that, it says I need to change my cluster size. How can I do that without reformatting?

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I expanded my drive from 10TB to 100TB. However, under Windows Explorer "My PC", it still shows at 10TB. I've practically reached the 10TB limit so I can't copy over any files without triggering the "the volume is low on space" warning, even though it's actually 100TB!

 

How do I make Windows Explorer the newly created 100TB drive?

[what is the most used cloud provider right now? Google Drive or Amazon Cloud Drive?]

Drive lets you use 20 threads, ACD allows 4. 

[Local Cache Full]

Basically, yes. 

 

Well, the free space that you have on the disk in question. 

 

Specifically, as you write data, it will fill up the cache.  But as that data is uploaded, it's removed from the cache. 

 

Therare a couple of posts that talk about the cache more in depth:

 

http://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/1610-how-the-stablebit-clouddrive-cache-works/

 

http://blog.covecube.com/2016/12/stablebit-clouddrive-1-0-0-777-beta/

 

 

 

That said, we don't allow removable drives for cache, because if they disconnect (and they tend to do so).... the only graceful way to handle this is to BSOD. 

 

 

 

But keep in mind, filling the cache is like filling a pitcher with a whole. Even as you poor more into it, it's emptying.  

 

And if you do run out of space, it will throttle writes to prevent you from filling up the drive, slowing down whatever is copying the data to the drive. \

 

 

 

I know that but it's a hassle to watch the progress when you can just dump all the TBs and not worry about it. This constant back and forth is a bit annoying. You guys should def allow removables as local cache drives.

[StableBit CloudDrive taking up all my space]

What provider did you use? 

 

If you used the Local Disk provider, then detaching the drive will leave the contents behind.

 

Otherwise, the cache is stored in a hidden "CloudPart.xxxxx" folder.  

If the drive is detached, then you can safely delete that folder. 

 

 

Well I use Google Drive, but it forces me to use my C drive as the cache, thus I can only transfer 500gb of files at a time to Google Drive (which is the limit of my C drive capacity)

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So if I were to attach my ACD or Google Drive account, by default (and I can't change this), all my local cache goes to my regular C drive which has a capacity of 500gb.

 

So what this means is that I can only transfer 500gb of files at a time...because my cache fills up.

 

However, I do have a 6TB external HDD, but I can't use this external drive for my local cache.

 

I also don't know how to incorporate DrivePool or if that even applies to this situation. I don't know what the "Local Disk" option in Cloudrive does, but I'm testing out a few things.

 

 

If anyone could give me a work around to not caching the files on my C drive but rather to my external HDD, that would be amazing and it would let me transfer files at nearly 6TB at a time!

 

Thanks