Quaraxkad

It's uploading now, but I'm not sure if it will be of any use. When it hangs it only lasts for a few seconds, so I'm not able to collect the troubleshooting info during that time. It has only completely frozen 2 or 3 times (had to kill it with task manager) but I couldn't reproduce that just now.

Correct.

Installing that beta version of Scanner has drastically improved load times. However I'm still having some hangs and complete freezes (when it's not in foreground) in DrivePool.

I have updated to this beta version. I wasn't expecting such a quick fix for that dpcmd, I went ahead and did what I needed to do manually so I'm not able to re-test that function at the moment (though I will on my next failing drive replacement/capacity upgrade). However I do notice that with this new beta the UI is far less responsive. It hangs for a few seconds every 15-20 seconds or so. Similarly, when I click "Re-balance Now", it takes around a minute before anything actually starts happening. Generally, and I don't know if it's just me and the increasing demands I'm placing on the software in the form of adding more drives to the server, but the UI for all three programs (Scanner, DrivePool, CloudDrive) appears to be getting less and less responsive from when I first started using them.

Yes, I am using SnapRAID. So in my case, that's not a caveat at all, that's exactly how I'd like drive removal to work in the first place. As an option at least, considering other users might prefer it the way it is now. What exactly is the syntax of that command? I can't get it to work. >dpcmd.exe ignore-poolpart v:\ a4224137-e380-442c-acfc-a06af3669d99 dpcmd - StableBit DrivePool command line interface Version 2.2.0.767 Field passed in is not a marshaled member of the type 'DrivePoolService.Pool.CoveFsDriver.NativeTypes+â–º'. Parameter name: fieldName Usage: dpcmd ignore-poolpart [parameter1 [parameter2 ...]] Command: ignore-poolpart - Immediately disconnects a pool part from the pool and prevents it from participating in future pools by placing an ignore tag on it. Parameters: poolPath - Path to the pool. poolPartName - The name (or UID) of the pool part.

I don't know if making this a "regular" feature is on the road-map, but it's one of the things that I have to fight with DrivePool over every time I replace a disk (which is actually quite frequently). I don't use any duplication features, when I remove a disk from the pool I move the data from it onto its replacement manually. I don't want DrivePool emptying the disk, I just want it dropped from the pool immediately. Typically what I have to do is physically remove the drive from the server, then remove the missing drive from the pool, and I can't re-install that drive into the server or it will be immediately re-added to the pool. So I have to install it in another computer and transfer the files over the network, or "break" the PoolPart folder so the server doesn't re-add it when I plug it back in.