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    Long time DrivePool and Scanner customer. Just bought and setup StableBit Cloud

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     I did mean to say CloudDrive as you pointed out. A few years back I setup the Cloud notification service. I get an email when drives go offline in our DrivePool (happens once in a while if a Probox doesn't come back on after a power failure). I think that service is morphing into StableBit Cloud which also helps you keep up to date and reports more detail on the status of the drives. 

     

    Moving disks from inside computer case to Probox

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    I have two 3TB Greens that are SATA II (3Gbps) - does the balancer know to put things on the faster mostly empty drives I just added? I'm asking because one is empty now and the other only has 5GB. I decided to remove them but I got an error that says Access Denied. Any advice on correcting this issue will be appreciated. I want to use them to backup media and store offline. 

    EDIT - there was an error at some point about invalid filenames (maybe too long) - these had some backups of data that the user made folder names like "This is the new folder I'm keeping data until the auditors decide what I need to keep or not for fiscal year 2020 unless there is some file here that need to be redone"

    Moving disks from inside computer case to Probox

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    I have an 8TB WD80EZRX and 6TB WD60EFRX in a Dell Vostro 430 that I'm just now realizing has only SATA II connectors. Was examining drives in Scanner and noticed their connection is SATA Rev 3.1 (3Gbps of 6Gbps Max) 

    Now that I've added a pair of 14TB Ultrastars I'm removing smaller/slower drives from my Proboxes and want to move the two drives from the computer case into the Proboxes. Can I just power down and move them - will the pool see them the same once moved to the Probox?

    Windows 10 support etc

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    I'm thinking of trying Win10 again - I had issues with my Probox units dropping intermittently when I tried the upgrade in 2016. I'm using the Asmedia 106x card for the two eSATA connections. I'm thinking whatever driver issue was causing that is hopefully fixed. 

    Since the machine has already activated Win10 I can just put the current drive aside and install a fresh Win10 on a new SSD boot drive - if I run into the same problems I'll go back to the current drive. 

    The machine is dedicated to storage - no one logs on to it except for maintenance. I'm wondering how many here just stayed with Win7. Any comments appreciated. 

    Upgrades to Aging Server

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    I credit Scanner with the reliability of my WD30EZRX Greens. I ran the wdidle to stop the parking. A bunch of them are 9 years old and running fine. Scanner reported temps that prompted me to put the Probox fans on high and not place the plastic front cover on. They run nice and cool now. They're in spot where the noise isn't an issue Not really that noisy anyway - sound like a small desk fan. 

    Upgrades to Aging Server

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    On 2/11/2022 at 5:35 PM, myrkr said:

    Went with a Western Digital WD Ultrastar DC HC550

     

    I've now bought two Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB drives from serverpartsdeals.com . I found them on Amazon but went direct because I support some clients who participate on Amazon Seller Central and I don't like how Amazon conducts business. They ship fast and seem like a great company. I always run the Probox fans on full speed so if the DC HC530's are noisy I can't hear them.  Thanks for the heads up on the Ultrastars!

    Long time DrivePool and Scanner customer. Just bought and setup StableBit Cloud

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    Our business provides IT support to small businesses. Mostly we follow the managed services model where clients pay a fixed monthly for ongoing service. We now require both workstation and server cloud backup. I started years ago with CrashPlan and still have clients using it for real time backup. I've been using Backblaze for several years for all workstation backups. I discovered CrashPlan when it was just a software company that could backup between locations. I found Backblaze when I was researching hard drive reliability and came across their reports. 

    I've been using StableBit DrivePool and Scanner since the WHS2011 days to provide redundant JBOD storage. I'm very happy I found this pair of products - I think running them is superior to NAS offerings such as Synology and QNAP. Our clients who use NAS products have not had as good results storage wise as we have using the StableBit suite. It's very comforting to know the drives are being checked - it's easy to swap them out when problems develop. 

    I've also supported DriveHQ and JungleDisk for clients. Now we have Office 365 OneDrive and GoogleDrive. Most of our clients like to operate from a "virtual drive" with a drive letter. It's familiar and makes use simple. I haven't had great results mapping to OneDrive.  We ran into issues with linked spreadsheets in Excel on JungleDisk. DriveHQ had issues with file locking. We also use products ourselves first to find out what works and doesn't. 

    I just setup StableBit Cloud and signed up for BackBlaze B2 and created a 10GB drive to get started. I will be testing the drive to see how it works as a business drive. I'm curious if any forum members have used it this way. My current use of StableBit DrivePool and Scanner has been for storing my personal media. I suspect that is how people are looking at StableBit Cloud, I will be testing how streaming works from it. Our connection is fiber 500 up/down and could be increased to 1000 for not much more monthly cost. 

     

    Looking for recommendation - best harddrives

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    I was checking Scanner yesterday and noticed that two of the drives in my 10 drive drivepool are quite old at this point. 

    I have two 8TB Reds in the computer and 8 more drives in a pair of MediaSonic Proboxes which are Reds, Blues and some really old Greens that I didn't catch the parking on until they were up in the 250K+ park count. Those have been running fine ever since I fixed that with wdidle3 tool 8 years ago. 

    I have a data job that requires a pair of 8 or 10TB drives that I will then put in my drivepool.

    Hoping some people here might have recommendations. The last Red I bought was a 4TB I just put in my mom's Tivo Premiere 4 for $89:

        WD - Red Plus 4TB Internal SATA NAS Hard Drive for Desktops
        Model: WDBAVV0040HNC-WRSN
        SKU: 6449002    
        
      Use case is streaming movie files

    EDIT - have been shopping and researching the past hour - what is the deal with 7200RPM Red drives?

    Add a 4 or 5 bay Enclosure connected thru eSATA controller card to my Server.

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    When I started with my single Probox connected to a Rosewill SiL 3132 card everything worked great. Then I bought a second Probox and couldn't get it to work reliably with the second eSATA port. Mediasonic recommended the Asmedia 106x and that has been working rock solid with the pair of Proboxes for 5 years. I did have one misadventure when I decided to try Windows 10 in 2017. Everything installed nicely and appeared to work but I had two major problems in subsequent operation - drives were disappearing and network connectivity was intermittently slow. I simply popped the Windows 7 SSD I put aside and have continued on with no problems. 

    I see in the previous posts in this thread that if I wanted a more up to date and more reliable Win10 based system I should look at HBA with external SAS connectors. Is there a detailed explanation elsewhere on the forum about that type of setup? Now it's 2020 - is the Norco enclosure with LSI HAB still a recommendation?

    As you can see by my previous choices I went the very low cost route. I think there was cost in time such as the time sorting out that the 3132 card wasn't reliable for twin multiplex eSATA connections. 

    Thanks,

    Windows 10 questions

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    Two years ago I tried running DrivePool on Windows 10. Everything seemed ok during the install but I had problems where Windows 7 mediacenter computers had problems opening the movie files.

    I wasn't sure if the problem was caused by the pair of MediaSonic ProBoxes connected with the Asmedia 106x SATA controller or ethernet driver issues. I just put the Windows 7 OS SSD I put aside back in and continued until now with Win7.

    I've now upgraded all the mediacenter computers to Windows 10 with Chameleon Media Center. Does anyone have a Drive Pool machine with a pair of ProBoxes/Asmedia 106 running fine in Windows 10?

    Thanks,

    Thinking of upgrading hardware - have some questions

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    I've got a Dell Vostro 420 running fine as storage for our media computers. Movies load right up and all is well except that sometimes to restart the computer I have to press F12 and manually choose the boot drive which is a 4 year old Kingston SSD Now V300 120GB. Scanner reports no issues with the drive. I took it out and scanned it for viruses with several scanners. I used Kingston's drive software which reported it healthy. 

    I cloned the drive and the clone, an out of the box Evo 860 behaved exactly the same way. So I guess it's something corrupt in the Windows 7 OS.

    I mentioning this first on the off chance someone has a suggestion - once the computer is booted it runs fine for months on end with no errors. 

    This is prompting me to consider a new machine. Is there a Drive Pool migration tool?

    Thanks, 

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