Christopher (Drashna)

What version of Windows are you using and what version of DrivePool? Also, do you have any antivirus installed on the system?

Nope, sorry. Especially, now that Windows XP is completely unsupported by Microsoft. Vista/Server 2008 and up, only. Sorry.

Ah, ouch. Unfortunately, some tools expose ... well, nothing. And it's not just Plextor that does stuff like this. A majority of SSD manufacturers use non-standard values. But that's part of why we have BitFlock. As for good rules, since we have to add the rules ourselves, newer drives may be lacking... But most popular/well known brands should have good rules. If you're asking for a specific recommendation, I can't really give you want. There are a lot of drives out there, and we do have a LOT of rules for the disks.

Got my Seagate Archive 8TB drive! Aside from the atrocious packing done by the seller... https://drashna.net/owncloud/index.php/s/mZTNoUyWwUvZOnI Well, doing some testing with synthetic benchmarks such as ATTO, the drive looks ... well, pretty on par with the Seagate NAS and WD Red drives in terms of performance. Doing copies of large files (ISOs), I was getting around 120/s sustained write speeds to the disk (from my pool, also using 64k allocation unite size for the disk, which seems to make a 20MB/s difference in write speed). File reads are around 140MB/s consistently. In both cases, it does fluctuate a lot. And occasionally, writes would stop (0 bytes/s), but not often. All in all, I would say that the Seagate Archive drives should work well with DrivePool. Though, for best effect, the Ordered File Placement Balancer may get you the best results from these disks.

Now, that I can definitely understand.

That sounds like a fun slope though. As in, I'd love to do that.

Lindsay, Don't get me wrong, it would be fantastic to have that information "sent" to the VM in question. But doing so would require a signficant change to the code, to support something like this. Also, we would have to implement some way to identify the disks properly. But that doesn't meant that we won't. We would love to, but Alex is the only developer (we are a very small company), so we don't have the resources to "just do it". However, this has been brought up before, so we are aware of the issue. As for the license, it is "per machine" and VMs are considered machines. But on the plus note, any license after the first can be purchased at a discounted price. ($15 instead of $25). But if we do create a version that works much better with HyperV, maybe we can see about selling a special HyperV license that would be more flexible.

Thank you. I've flagged the file at Avira, so they should hopefully fix the detection issue. But in the meanwhile, please do exclude those folders.

My money would be on a loose connection or dirt (or hair, or something) in the connector... My hardware sits in a nice Norco RPC-4220 4U case. In my "desk".

Sorry, I swear I had answered, but apparently not. As for the "query power mode directly from the disk"... this will wake up the disk. I'm not sure how often we query, but this could keep the disk away continually. So it really depends on what you want. If you want better power management... thendon't enable this option and just let windows handle it.

Sorry, that looks like it's probably off as well. Though, it's harder to tell. Out of curiosity, what does the manufacturer tool say (if it lists the values)? But for the most part, you should be fine here. Though, I've flagged the issues for Alex, and we'll take a look into correcting this on our end, when we can. https://stablebit.com/Admin/IssueAnalysis/13502

The dumps are absolutely fine. No need to reproduce, actually. Those files are the memory contents at the time of the crash, and usually give a very good indication as to why it occured. As for the upload, the Box upload widget uses our account, so you don't have to worry about storing the files. That's why we provide it. As for the instructions in the link, you can ignore them for the most part.

Been there, done that. Never shell externals.... I had 6-7 of them go bad in a short period of time. Is what I get for going super cheap. As the drive, I'm sorry to hear that, as that's never fun. However, I'm sure that it wasn't Drive Bender's fault... but because of how it works... recovering from that can be a PITA. (though, it's not fun regardless). As for which drives, we recommend NAS drives for DrivePool. That's WD Reds, or Seagate NAS, or any other drives designed for NAS usage. They're pretty much ideal for DrivePool. Though, Green drives to work. They do have problems, as mentioned (overly aggressive idling). As for the virus thing, you opened another forum thread about that, and I've responded there already. But I'm fairly certain that this is a false positive.

I can't tell what virus scanner that is... But I've seen our files flagged as the "Dropper" virus variant before. This is false positive. If you downloaded from our site, we do have a SHA hash of the files that you can verify the integrity: For StableBit.Scanner_2.5.1.3062_Release.wssx, the SHA hash is: 089a27c48a19a68db5403b6780af4aac79be5fd9 Also, we recommend excluding the "C:\Program Files\StableBit" and "C:\Program Files (x86)\StableBit" folders from the virus scanner to prevent this issue.

Depending on what is open in that section, the button can end up hidden. If this is the case, try closing the "File system health" section. This may help. Otherwise, underneath the 3rd button (the start/stop buttons), there should be a thin section with a " | >" symbol. Click on that, and it should show the button.

If you're seeing any other issues (performance issues or other SMART warnings), then yes. Otherwise, it's up to you. Either way, you should check the warranty status on the drive, just in case. But the WD Black should be fine. The Green's are super aggressive about parking, and cause the rapid LCC increase (among other issues), the Black's don't have this issue.

It sounds like an interpretation issue (in regards to LBA written). A lot of SSDs use some non-standard formatting for the SMART values, and that can throw our information off. If you could, let us know what your BitFlock ID (nest) is. PM me the info, or post it here.

Well, mine should arrive soon, and I will definitely be testing it out. I wish! I'm not sure about WHS2011, but 2012R2 runs the following on clients: . The paths may be different for WHS2011. but you should find this in the Task Scheduler, under Microsoft\Windows Server (or similar).

If you're overclocking... the first thing I'd recommend is setting it back to stock. ... As for ordering more licenses, if you have the Order Completion email, there should be a link there. That should make it easy. Otherwise, grab your StableBit DrivePool/Scanner Activation ID, and head to "https://stablebit.com/Buy/" and scroll down until you see the "Already own one of our products?" section. Input your Activation ID into the box and hit "Apply Activation ID". Once you've done that, it will will refresh the page with the discounted pricing. This will also add the addition licenses to your existing Activation ID. And yeah, there should be no issues with that.

Pretty much. The SATA bus is pretty beefy, and has been for a while. Though the Red's are a better choice for the pool. As for the USB3 cable, that shouldn't be a problem, as long as it's a good cable. And that you're not using too many disks in the enclosure (mediasonic has 4, 5 and 8 bay enclosures, IIRC). And sounds like you have a nice entertainment center as well.

And this is why we are not officially supporting Windows 10 until is has hit RTM (release) or is VERY close. Because the product is essentially a public ALPHA release... it is subject to drastic and total changes. And unfortunately, it does seem that you are being negatively impacted by that. Worst case here, if you need to get up and running, you can download the Windows 8.1 Enterprise Eval disk and generate a key for that: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-8-1-enterprise It is a 90 day trial. Alternatively, Microsoft has a 180 day Eval of Windows Server 2012R2 Essentials, as well. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server-2012-r2-essentials

Topic moved, so no worries there. As for the speeds, and Read Striping, I'm not exactly sure. I'll have to ask Alex (the developer) about this. However, for all intents, there shouldn't be a significant difference between SATA II and SATA III. The SATA II (3gbps) bus should be able to get very fast speeds (around 400MB/s) without any issues. Far faster that most "spinning" drives. However, if the bus speed is detected as much slower, then yes, the Read Striping feature should read from the faster drive instead.

I'm glad to hear that once you got the config file working right, that it seems to be working just fine!

The one that the friend had was the USB3 version of that, and it did work well. I haven't messed with this enclosure specifically, yet.

Exactly. iLO is HP's version of out of band management, which uses a dedicated card, IIRC. Intel vPro/AMT is Intel's version (and requires CPU and motherboard support). IPMI is "generic" and requires a special, "secondary" chipset on the motherboard.