Christopher (Drashna)

"Soon(TM)".
We don't have an ETA, but we hope to have it out very soon.

Was just as easy as it sounded. Thanks for the assistance and the marvelous product. Cheers!

Yeah, the public beta (2.2.0.881, as of the time of this post) supports the hierarchical pooling.  And that's what you'd want to do. 

Yes thats the "quick and dirty" method - i used it when i setup my pool - 30TB+
As the data is on the disks its a "move" (from outside to inside the poolpart folder) rather than a copy process so is very quick as you are just changing the file location on the disk(s)

Hi!
After a few months one of the drives went haywire making the whole array to behave inconsistently, but a good old "chkdsk c: /r /scan /perf" brought it back to life.

As for the fans, they are 3-pins yes, and worked fine in other mobos, but I guess the pins on the power supply wasnt outputting what needed to be outputed..
The enclose doesnt mind if a fan doesnt exist inside the PSU no. I took the cable from the PSU, split that for both fans to work. This does mean that BOTH fans stop working if the unit is plugged in but without any of the disks are turned on, so use with caution!
BR,
Alex

Very true Chris. So far from my experience Google seems to perform the best, just wish the daily upload limit was higher. I will be sticking with Google, just was curious to see how the other providers handled.

Then I will. Glad I checked in. Happy Holiday Season to all of you.

10MB/100MB/30s, on the latest public beta (as of today/last night) should get decent/good bluray playback. 
At least, that's what Alex (the dev) has tested on. 

If this happens again, then running this should fix it, IIRC:
mountvol /n
mountvol /d
mountvol /e
 
Yeah. It nuked Emby and Tomcat (apache, for subsonic) for me, as well.  
Apparently, it removes stuff it doesn't like, without any notice. And it does it inconsistently... and without logs.  It's a load of crap.

IIRC, yes, this is Box. 
However, try using different chunk sizes and higher minimum download size.

I didn't see that limit! 
And yeah, even with large chunks (100MB), that would be 9.5TBs MAX. 

If you want.
I'd recommend it.

Did you see yet?  
2.2.0.881 was released as a public beta last night.  
Barring any major issues, we should have a public release version in a couple of weeks.

I've actually seen where the writes drop off. They hit 0 bytes/sec for a few seconds and then bounce right back up. And do this repeatedly.  So there is definitely a write issue with the drives.
 
That said, I get ~180-190MB/s read from these drives when I switched the allocation unit size to 64k.  Worth doing (manually). 
 
 
And if write performance is an issue, then get a couple of SSDs and use the SSD Optimizer balancer. This way, data is written to the SSDs and then moved off. You'll never see the issue then.
 
 
(I'm up to 5x 8TB Seagate Archive driver and am very happy with them)

I have not experienced this myself, the only time i get the rate limit exceeded error is when i upload  and go over the 750GB daily limit.

Thanks, Drashna. I might ask in a year or so to see if the status has changed any but for now i, of course, will go with your recommendation.

Awesome, and again, sorry for the trouble.  I ... had issues tracking down the issue. It was one of those "weird" issues! 

Agreed, very clever. My father really believed in the KISS principle, so he set up his backup system so it makes physical copies to other sets of drives. So, he has a total of 5 drives sets:
Main Storage
NearLine Storage
MyDocumentsReserve Storage
OffSite A Storage
OffSite B Storage
As you might suspect, Main Storage is where all files go when they're created. It's also where the vast majority of files are read from when other computers access the server. These drives mounted in the server chassis and connected by SATA.
NearLine Storage is a USB3-connected Lian-Li 5-drive enclosure, currently with 3 drives.
MyDocumentsReserve is an extra copy of only the My Documents folder on Main Storage. This is the most critical data of all, so it gets an extra measure of security.
OffLine A and B Storage are 2 sets of drives that are swapped in and out of a second USB3-connected Lian-Li 5-drive enclosure. One of the sets of drives is kept off site. My father swapped them in and out of the enclosure every day. I'm not that dedicated; I swap them more like once a week. Both sets are in the house overnight on the day of a  swap over but, other than that, one set is at another site.
Every night, at 2AM, a set of CMD files is run by a single Scheduled Task. These CMD files use RoboCopy to copy the My Documents folder on Main Storage to MyDocumentsReserve. Then, having backed up the most critical files, all the files on Main Storage (including the My Documents folder again) are copied first to NearLine, then OffSite A or B (whichever set is currently in the enclosure).
Because of the way RoboCopy works, only new and changed files are physically copied, so the process is pretty quick
This procedure ensures there are 4 copies of everything; 5 copies of My Documents.
My father used to tell me that many people told him his system is overkill, but he would then tell me he has never lost a file completely since implementing it. Soooo, why would I mess with it.... it works.

Yeah. Hard to imagine lowering the price. It's already very reasonable.

Every time I add a new dick disk >:(
And I've posted about it on the MS forums, "sorry, we cannot reproduce it"......

Sure.
So DP supports pool hierarchies, i.e., a Pool can act like it is a HDD that is part of a (other) Pool. This was done especially for me. Just kidding. To make DP and CloudDrive (CD) work together well (but it helps me too). In the CD case, suppose you have two HDDs that are Pooled and you use x2 duplication. You also add a CD to that Pool. What you *want* is one duplicate on either HDD and the other duplicate on the CD. But there is no guarantee it will be that way. Both duplicated could end up at one of the HDDs. Lose the system and you lose all as there is no duplicate on CD.
To solve this, add both HDDs to Pool A. This Pool is not duplicated. You also have CD (or another Pool of a number of HDDs) and create unduplicated Pool B witrh that. If you then create a duplicated Pool C by adfding Pool A and Pool B, then DP, through Pool C will ensure that one duplicate ends up at (HDDs) in Pool A and the other duplicate will en up at Pool B. This is becuase DP will, for the purpose of Pool C, view Pool A and Pool B as single HDDs and DP ensures that duplicates are not stored on the same "HDD".
Next, for backup purposes, you would backup the underlying HDDs of Pool A and you would be backing up only one duplicate and still be certain you have all files.
Edit: In my case, this allows me to backup a single 4TB HDD (that is partitioned into 2 2TB partitions) in WHS2011 (which onyl supports backups of volumes/partitions up to 2TB) and still have this duplicated with another 4TB HDD. So, I have:
Pool A: 1 x 4TB HDD, partitioned into 2 x 2TB volumes, both added, not duplicated
Pool B: 1 x 4TB HDD, partitioned into 2 x 2TB volumes, both added, not duplicated
Pool C:  Pool A + Pool B, duplicated.
So, every file in Pool C is written to Pool A and Pool B. It is therefore, at both 4TB HDDs that are in the respective Pools A and B. Next, I backup both partitions of either HDD and I have only one backup with the guarantee of having one copy of each file included in the backup.

HI Jeff, how large is the Pool, the backup destination and do you use duplication?
Edit: Ah, the original post says it does. In that case, you might rearrange your Pool hierarchical. E.g.
unduplicated Pool A: DIsk 1 and Disk 2
unduplicated Pool B: DIsk 3 and Disk 4 and DIsk 5
Duplicated Pool C: Pool A and Pool B.
Then you would backup either the HDDs of Pool A or those of Pool B, whichever takes your fancy. THis is what I do with my WHS2011 Server (although, it is rather small storage-wise)

I Still have to refer to this thread when adding a new drive to my WS2012r2 server to get the Dashboard working (so I'll put all the bits in so I can find it next time!!!):
1) Add Drive(s)
2) From an elevated CMD Prompt --> "wbadmin delete catalog"
3) Restart WseMgmtSvc
4) Run Dashboard and re-setup the server backup

I'm still using the same Case/Power supply but I've since upgraded to a new Motherboard/CPU/RAM/Graphics card. (and new 8TB Red Drives)
The reason I upgraded was because of random Blue Screen of Death reboots.    After I upgraded nearly everything I STILL had frandom BSoD issues!   Long story short, it ended up being a BAD DisplayPort Cable!    New DisplayPort cable, and all problems went away.   (expensive troubleshooting!)
Here's the "good" cable
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YOP0T7G/
 
Intel Core i7-7700K 4.2 GHz Quad-Core LGA 1151 Processor

 
Ballistix Sport LT 32GB Kit (16GBx2) DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200) DIMM 288-Pin - BLS2K16G4D240FSE (Red)

 
ASUS Prime H270-PRO LGA 1151 ATX Motherboard
 
ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 8GB ROG STRIX Graphic Card (STRIX-GTX1070-8G-GAMING)

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