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    StablebitScanner equivalent to unRAID's "pre-clear" functionality?

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    On 1/5/2024 at 12:40 PM, sqlazer said:

    Hi there,

    I just ordered some used enterprise SAS drives, and before I put any files on them I wanna stress test for a few days and make sure that everything is kosher. Years ago, when I ran unRAID, there was a process called "pre-clear" where you would have all zeros written to all sectors of the drive, and then read back to verify, and then this is repeated for $X number of times.

    Is there an equivalent to this in the Drivepool/Scanner world? Alternatively, is there any sort of other recommended procedure here, or maybe a different stress test software I can run on my Server 2022 drivepool/scanner setup?

    HD Sentinel has something similar, but it's not free. It has multiple surface tests you can perform on a drive, in addition to the standard SMART tests. The equivalent you are asking about would be the write + read test, or reinitialize disk surface (more in-depth). You can configure the data pattern (zero byte, sector count, random data, etc).

    It has overlap with Stablebit scanner in terms of smart monitoring, etc, but scanner has a much better layout to organize/sort and custom name drives. I've always used sentinel's surface tests to prepare new disks before putting data on them. I basically reinitialize them.

    https://www.hdsentinel.com/help/en/61_surfacetest.html

    You can configure a couple of other things on the tests.

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    Win10 build broke DrivePool how to fix?

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    On 6/21/2020 at 4:58 PM, XtremeMaC said:

    as it's clearly an MS problem,

    It's not an MS problem, it's a user problem. Fast ring, or the new dev, beta and release preview channels are there for developers to iron out compatibility and bugs before it hits mainstream. You are on a developer release channel, on the same channel that Covecube is probably tracking, expecting zero-day stability, that's not going to happen.

     

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    Yesterday's update broke Drive Pool that's super crucial for me

    Then move Drivepool out of the developer channel windows installation.

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