Christopher (Drashna)
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Glad to hear it!
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This should be fixed in the latest beta versions, however, you may need to download the latest beta.
You can find the download links here: https://wiki.covecube.com/Downloads
And for those curious, the cause of the issue, we think is that the installer would be downloaded and saved to a "temp" folder location. If the temp folder was cleared out, it would remove the downloaded installer, but the updater wasn't intelligent enough to understand that. We've added some additional checks, so that it should redownload the installer if this happens.
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You are very welcome!
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You can safely remove this file, as it's not used on the drivePool disk due to technical limitions.
However, you may need to manually delete the file.
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You are very welcome!
Also, for checking disk usage, WinDirStat or WizTree are my go-to utilities for this sort of stuff.
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We've had a number of users upgrade to Windows 11, with minimal issues. Mostly, if you do run into issues, uninstall DrivePool, reboot, and then reinstall it, and that should sort most issues.
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Well, for the other data:
As for the trash folder, I've not seen that before, so that may be from some other program. And it probably isn't "other" data, here. Though, it still cold be.
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DrivePool shows the amount of files that are using data on the drive, basically. CloudDrive shows the data, not files that is used. Deleted files or files that have had their data moved will leave data behind and increase the used size on CloudDrive.
So this is normal, and okay.
However, the solution for this would be to zero out the unused data. But ... especially in your case, Im not sure if that's worth it.
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There is no theortical limit for the size of the pool, barring factors such as the controller you're using, OS support for the drives, your wallet size, cost of electricity.
As long as the drives show up in the OS, then you should be able to pool them. And StableBit DrivePool doesn't use the drive letters, so you can remove those, if you want.
We recommend mounting them to drive paths, to help keep things sane, and accessible.
https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q4822624
however, if you just want to remove the drive letters, be warned that Windows can have issues with volumes that aren't mounted. There is a simple fix for that, if you do run into it:
https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_F3540Personally, I'm running 20+ drives in a pool that is 150~ TBs.
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It should be. I have a couple of guesses as to why, but we'll take a look into it.
That said, in the meanwhile, you can manually download the latest installer and run it. That should ... work around the issue. But yeah, ideally, it should download it, like it's supposed to.
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Unfortunately, no. However I believe that the underlying pool gets priority, but I'd have to confirm.
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If there is a damaged disk, and the Scanner balancer is active, it will override the disk space equalizer balancer, usually.
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I mean, alex is alive and well. but yeah, some issues that don't directly involve Covecube.
If alex wants to answer what exacty so going on, he will. But stuff is still happening.
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That's ... odd and shouldn't be happening.
If you can, open a ticket at https://stablebit./com/Contact
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This is from the NVMe health info, correct?
If so, then the warning is straight from the specs. However, if you're not gettin any other issues, and a surface scan completes fine, then it may be a false positive.
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Windows might have some issues, as may your power company.
Aside from that, StableBit DrivePool shouldn't.
But you may want to mount the drives to folders, rather than using drive letters.
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Licensing issues should be responded to quickly. If not, double check that you got a confirmation email for the ticket.
And if that doesn't work, let me know directly.
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If it continues to happen, definitely let us know.
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Honestly, I wouldn'r really recommend disabling balancing.
The default balancers cover edge cases, mostly... so if it's balancing data, there is probably a good reason for it, and disabling it may cause problems, down the line.
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before anything else, upgrade the version. There was an issue that caused the user rate limit exceeded warnings, and has been fixed since. Just to make sure that this isn't the same issue ....
Also, if you have 2+ drives backed by Google Drive, you want to split the resources between them. Eg, 40mbps each (if there are 2), and 4-5 threads, each.
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That's good information to know!
Though, would you be willing to post the process of how you did all this, specifically?
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Also, there are PCI-e riser cards that have NVMe slots. Though, they may be expensive.
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On 4/28/2021 at 9:45 AM, Wanted said:
Please do Yandex.disk
It's already on the list.
pool got borked, advice on fixing.
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That's ... very odd, and I would recommend running a CHKDSK pass on the disks, just in case.
But as for fixing it, that should be pretty simple, and what you've outlined will work. More specifically:
https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_F1655