Christopher (Drashna)

getting corsair carbide series spec 01 and crucial MX200  250gb ssd for my gaming rig... (currently amd phenom 2 945 with 4x4 (16gb) gskill ddr 3 1600 and geforce 640gt

I know, right?!
 
But apparently, it's a completely different team that doesn't interact with the S3 team (at least, that's my guess, and what it appears like).
 
In fact, I'm not sure why they didn't just use the S3 infrastructure. ....

Doesn't matter what they are. If they won't communicate with us and let us know what the limits *should* be, then we have to guess and HOPE they won't demote us to development status again.  Getting official word is better. But they'd still have to re-promote us to production status again..... 
 
 
But to Alex's point: we're more than willing to work with them. But they need to respond to their emails.  Communication only works if it's going in both directions. 
 
That .... or we EECB them (and that's .... well, not a good option). 

I'm pretty sure the limits are quite high. I'm getting around 33 mb/s with netdrive (which is far inferior to Stablebit Cloud Drive). I think the issue must be around the max amount of threads and therefore the amount of api calls due to each thread making calls.
 
Thank god it was more people than me who showed an interest in getting Stablebit up and running which hopefully will lead to them starting to reply!
 
All in all, your product is awesome

Especially for C:\ (OS) you might want to consider performing actual backups one way or the other. DrivePool (had it supported it), dynamic disks, RAID do not protect you against deletions, failed updates/installations and whatnot. Actually, this goes for all data.

Considering the huge list of bug fixes between the Release version (2.1.1.561) and the Public Beta (2.2.0.651), this doesn't surprise me. 
 
I know there was some locking and performance fixes in there as well.
 
 
So if the beta is working much better, I'm very glad to hear that.
If you're still having issues or have any other issues, do let us know (and what OS you're using specifically) 

Final update: after using "File Placement Limiter" (Above we were calling it something different) there was a progress bar and arrows showing the activity, which was nice, and that took a while, but not too crazy long considering the amount of data. After the data was moved off the drive as requested from file placement limiter plug in, I selected the drive for removal and that took maybe 5 minutes, Once the drive was not being used, the pool displayed the available space after which I shut down the server, removed the 2tb drive and installed a new 4tb drive in it's place, after reboot, I chose to use the RAW drive without assigning a drive letter so the pool would just use the entire drive. Done deal, more space, nothing missing! Thanks for the help!

Saw the newest update includes Google Drive!!! Will do some testing with it, very excited to see this! Keep up the good work!

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Yes, after using Stablebit Cloudrive with Amazon Cloud Drive then amazon causing a bunch of issues because of "excessive" api usage I have now paid for a Google Apps for Work account for it's unlimited storage.  As soon as a beta is released that includes support for it I will be buying Stablebit Clouddrive.  Keep up the hard work.

Been almost 2 weeks now without an update.  So I thought I'd real quick announce that I have ordered my HP 24-port SAS Expander!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-HP-6Gbps-SAS-Expender-Card-24-Port-SAS-PCI-E-Expander-Board-468405-001-/171532956108?hash=item27f02931cc:g:aQUAAOSwdsFUPgAb
I tried to haggle a bit with the seller.  I originally bookmarked his sale when it was at $210, it's now at $160.  In fact, when I started my haggle, he had it set at $110.  I only managed to get him down to $100 even, plus $8 shipping.  Still, it beats +$200, and it's brand new.  I could have gotten it cheaper, in the $80 range, but those other sales are different models running at 3G speed instead of 6G.  Now I need to buy me some more SAS cables!

When I setup my drive, I wanted to use a Striped SSD Dynamic disk as the cache drive, however in the dropdown the stripe drive was not listed.
Any idea why it's not there and how I can get it to be listed?
 
Thanks.  Great product so far.  Looking forward to Google Drive!

Well, thank you for your interest in our product!
 
 
And when duplicating data, it depends.  It does want to place files on the disk(s) with the most absolute free space. However, it does follow the balancing settings, as well. So if you're using the Disk Space Equalizer, it should follow it's settings, as well.
 
If you don't have the balancer installed yet, then it wouldn't use the 2TB drives until the 8TB drives are ~6TBs filled and the 4TB drives are ~2TBs filled.  Only once all the drives have the same amount of space, would it start using the 2TB drives.  
(that's barring "special circumstances" such as higher than 2x duplication).

I agree. I've been testing a lot of different alternatives to CloudDrive and its still the most stable app I've used.

Also please be aware that this stragegy alone does not protect you against an unnoticed accidental deletion or corruption of files (either from user error, malware, software bug etc).  Any deletion or corruption will be propogated to all 3 copies virtually instantly.
 
I'm designing a strategy at the moment and am trying to take this into account.  I'm thinking it is better to have a backup process using backup software that can restore state to a given time.  Back this up to a local drive (either in the pool or seperate) and then mirror it offsite.  I'm thinking of using Backup For Workgroups for this as it has the mirroring built in.

So far I have:
 
Supermicro X10SLH-F-O
Xeon E3-1276v3
16GB Crucial UDIMM (Another 16GB will be here on Friday)
LSI SAS 9207-8i
120GB OCZ Vertex3 SSD for OS
2x 5TB Toshiba (PH3500U-1|72)
 
I'll use that to upgrade my existing setup.
 
If my boss buys my existing server, I'll pick up a Norco 4224, and probably 4x 8TB Seagate Archive Drives
 

"And glad to hear that you got the airflow fixed and the drives running cooler! "
 
Biggest thing was that I had the cover off, and it made a HUGE difference when I put it back on.  Makes sense though, with the cover on, the air is forced through the front where the drives are.  I also closed the vents on the bays where I didn't have drives.
 
If I upgrade this, or rebuild using a 4224 I will be getting the 120mm fan wall.

My CURRENT setup:
 
Norco RPC-4220
Supermicro X7SPA-H-D525 Mobo
D525 (1.80Ghz) CPU
4GB Mushkin SO-DIMM DDR3 1333
Corsair TX650 PSU
LSI SAS 9201-16i
60GB OCZ Vertex2 SSD for OS
5x 3TB Barracuda XT (ST3300651AS)
6x 3TB WD Red (WD30EFRX-68A)
1x 2TB Landing Drive for Torrents
 
I'll either be upgrading to building a new server in the next two weeks...  Can't wait!
 

Thanks.
Yes, after 10 years with watercooling cases (some were dual Xeon), I am now only doing air cooled stuff and even if its more challenging regarding temperatures, its way cheaper...
A good controled air flow with positive air pressure can cool a lot of setup, with near to zero maintenance.
 
Now that I use DrivePool, I would be able to keep the same case and if I need more data room, only change 4TB drives as price drop with 8TB, one by one...
72TB in a small mid tower with all HD under 35°C 

Sorry, I have "only" 4 SSDs 
I was just curious if dual link would increase single SSD read/write but it doesn't.

Some picts of my quick but functional SAS expander mounting 
 
A very efficient 350W TFX PSU :
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
SAS mount   :
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Mounted in the case.
The setup isn't complete yet (but working). When completed it would have 1x 240GB SSD + 3x240Gb caching SSDs, 6x4TB  + 3x5TB HDs : virtualy 39TB with SSD write caching x3.
On this picture I was testing dual link between the M1115 and Intel SAS expander :
 
 

 
 
 
 
Single link :
      I need some more work on cable management... But cooling is now perfectly tunned with SpeedFan that controls 5 case fans. HDs are between 29°C and 34°C and both SAS card's CPU below 45°C (thanks to a case fan puching air between both SAS cards).

Small update : I did replace the original heatsink with a bigger and 100% copper one.
I did fixed it with Arctic Sylver Thermal Adhesive, so it's permanent but much more efficient than thermal paste in this case.
Then I did bended the heatsink pins one by one.
The result is an impressive 20°C temp drop from 45-50°C to 27-30°C.
 
I plan to do the same for the top M1115.
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

I'm a long time FlexRAID user, and while the protection appeared to be there the reality is that it never really worked for me.
 
I will have a pool with 14 drives (10x 3TB, 2x 4TB and 2x 5TB drives).  The majority of my data is media (about 18TB) and not practical to duplicate it all.  I have another 2-3TB of personal files, work files, pics etc that I would like to duplicate.
I will also be running the Scanner software.  I understand that if I want to be fully protected I'd need to spend a ton of money on Enterprise drives, hardware RAID, etc, etc, etc.  I'm looking for settings/configuration (for both Drivepool and Scanner) that will offer me good protection/prevention.
 
I hooked up some old drives to my existing FlexRAID server and installed Drivepool and Scanner to play with it.  I need to play with Drivepool a bit more to understand how it works... I had one drive with data on it, and it added the free space to the pool, and there was a drive with just the data on it that remained.  I moved the data, but it didn't remove the now empty drive.  It scanned the drives, and one was a complete mess (but still worked), so it warned me it was going to die.  Another has always had heat issues, and it gave me a warning about the temp.  That's great, and as long as I have 5TB free it should copy files off the drive to minimize the risk of data loss.
 
Any suggestions for actual setup/configuration?  Tips for a newb?
 
Thanks!
 
 

As I read it, you have 48TB capacity and 21TB of data. I would duplicate all as I assume you do not make backups and do want to be at least somewhat protected. Duplication <> backup but at least you are likely not to lose anything in case of a single HDD failure. It will leave about 6TB free (although, due to duplication it would only be about 3TB net).
 
I would consider adding one or two (or four) 8TB Seagate Archive HDDs. They are cheap per TB and read like crazy. There is a write-performance penalty but, frankly, I do not see that affecting your system as it would hit only when you have a lot of writes and I assume most of your data is actually static. It will leave you with a lot of room to move data to from current HDDs that start to fail.
 
The is a File Placement add-in that helps you to ensure that media files that belong to each other or not scattered over many HDDs (you could get it to have groups of files to be written to two HDDs only) but I do not use it and can not actually help with that.
 
I am usnure what you mean exactly by "I had one drive with data on it, and it added the free space to the pool, and there was a drive with just the data on it that remained.  I moved the data, but it didn't remove the now empty drive."

So, basically no difference.  Do you have multiple SSDs?  If so, ... well, to properly test... you'd need 7+ that can run at about 500MB/s (for the sequential).  6 and change to saturate one connection, and then a seventh or more to exceed.  If you have that many and can test them all at the same time (running a surface scan or chkdsk or a full format), that would be the real test.  (otherwise, it's closer to 30+ HDDS).