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A bit off the usual topic but I wanted to share this with the community as I've had such good luck with it.  It is MoCA, it stands for multimedia over coax alliance.  Practically, this is an adapter that connects to your router and bridges Ethernet to coax, a second adapter, wherever you need a fast and stable network signal converts it back to Ethernet.  This will work with any coax network, so if your house is wired for cable, it's now wired for 100mbs Ethernet.  The signal is solid, strong and fast.  I stream 1080p from my server in my office upstairs to the xbmc in my living room through several splitters.  Could not get it to work consistently with wireless and now it's as smooth as butter, no buffering, no stutter.  The only thing that seems to be a problem is a cable/coax amplifier between the sending and receiving units.  A little re-wiring for me and it worked fine.  Install is plug and play.  Coax is pass thru the adapter and it has an Ethernet jack out to your device or switch if you have more than on at the location.  Hooked it up and the network picked it up in seconds and I was good to go.  They cost about $45 each, you usually need 2, some devices for example the newer TiVo's and some TV's and Blu Ray players are set up for it already with an internal adapter.  None of my stuff was.    The MoCA trade group is sponsored by some big names in computers, networking and cable so this is no fly by night start up.  Adapters are just coming on line but are available through most major retailers though you have to look for them as they are so new.  Best one seems to be from ActionTec (new version out this year), followed by Netgear and D-link.  Got mine from Best Buy through a marketplace partner for $109 for the pair.  Current network speed being reported is 80 mbs on average, more than enough for high def streaming.  The big plus is the stability of the signal, no blips or anything has been seen so far through online gaming and streaming high def movies over the network.  I am giving the links I used to check this out and order below, this is worth checking out if you are wired for cable, always wanted to have hard wired Ethernet but didn't want to tear up the house, and find wireless a bit lacking.  I use 2 ghz splitters in my cable wiring and the run to my cable modem is kept separate to avoid any interference. 
 
Sorry if this has run a little long and sounds like a sales pitch, but I am really liking these things, they just work and work well.  Plus they saved me from hard wiring my house or having to put up with my wife's rolled eyes every time a streamed movie stops and goes "Buffering".  Check out the links below and see if maybe this will work for you.  Thanks for all the drivepool help I have received here, hopefully this can be a bit of pay back.
 
Dave
 
Links:
 
http://www.mocalliance.org/
 
http://www.mocaisinyourhouse.com/

Has anyway installed the new media pack? If so, are you able to stream from a folder within the drive pool? I was unable to and received errors when trying to access my pictures folder that was set up for remote web access. My music folder kept showing up as having no music, so I ended up setting my music folder on a drive that is not on the storage pool and restarted my server. I was then able to stream music from remote web access. Anyone have any ideas why the drive pool folders didn't seem to work for me?

Hi,
I am trying to pool 2 x 1.5TB drives into a single 2.xTB partition on Windows 7. I have converted the two disks to GPT disks for starters (to get around the 2TB limit the resultant DrivePool drive will be greater than). I then formatted the two disks as NTFS partitions and then added them to a new pool in DrivePool and I get a 2.72TB partition like I want (which I alloated to Z:). FYI both disks are plugged into a USB dual-bay hard drive dock (so dynamic volumes aren’t an option for me as I’m sure many would know). I already use TrueCrypt, however I cannot get the DrivePool-created drive (Z:) to be encrypted in TrueCrypt. 
I have tried the following:
 
1) Created the DrivePool as drive Z:. It is mounted in the o/s like a normal drive.
 
In TrueCrypt:

2) Selected "Tools" -> "Volume creation wizard"
3) "Encrypt a non-system partition drive"
4) "Standard TrueCrypt volume"
5) "Select device" -> "Z:"
6) "Encrypt partition in place", click "next" and get "Incorrect function" dialog, 
I click "OK", then I receive an error about the disk being damaged:
http://stablebit.com/Content/UploadedAssets/Images/f314147d-53eb-435c-92a5-6a2b464372c0.jpg
  I click "OK" and another error about not being able to access the volume appears:
http://stablebit.com/Content/UploadedAssets/Images/bbb6614c-51f8-4602-be3f-6ccf15f018b7.jpg   So, instead of “Encrypt partition in place”, I chose “Create encrypted volume and format it”, “Aes” (default), default size, enter password, “Yes” to files over 4gb (Default=no), shows it’s selected “NTFS”, move the mouse around, click “Format”,  click ”Yes” to proceed, a second or two later I get an error telling me it can't dismount the partition:
http://stablebit.com/Content/UploadedAssets/Images/5b7ff999-63e0-4f9f-97fe-b16f2c53f41b.jpg   I click “OK and then I receive and I get a final error saying it finally failed to create a volume:
http://stablebit.com/Content/UploadedAssets/Images/76ec2bb0-3384-450b-85a2-bec383328970.jpg

And I click “Cancel” to abort and that's where I am at. Can anyone tell me what needs to be done to get the encryption working? Thanks for any assistance anyone can offer.  

I like writing these posts because they give me feedback as to what the community is really interested in. I can see that my last post about the Scanner was not very interesting, it was probably too technical and there's probably not much to add to what I've already said.
 
Well, this time let's talk about StableBit DrivePool. In particular, I'd like to talk about DrivePool beyond 2.0.
 
Controlling Folder Placement
 
I think that I have a few great ideas for DrivePool 2.1+ but some of them depend on the ability to control folder (or file) placement, per pool part. I've kind of hinted at this capability in the thread that talked about taking out per-folder duplication, but I think that I've figured out how we can make this work.
 
What I would like to be able to do in future versions is to give you guys the ability to associate folders with one or more disks that are part of the pool. So that any files in those folders would be stored on those pool parts only (unless they're full).
 
This should be trivial to implement on the file system level, but the balancing framework would need to be enhanced to support this, and I think that I've figured out how to make that work.
 
Theoretically, you should even be able to use wildcard patterns such as /Virtual Machines/Windows* to associate all of those files with a group of pooled disks.
 
What do you guys think, is this worthwhile doing?

Welcome everyone to the new Forum!
 
In an effort to support our growing community, the old Vanilla based forum was retired. It will remain available at its old URL http://forum.covecube.com, but you won't be able to post anything new there.
This new forum can be accessed at http://community.covcecube.com.
 
Login Credentials
 
If you've created an account on the old Vanilla forum, you can actually use the same username and password to log into this forum.
In addition, this new forum now supports logging in with your Windows Live ID.
 
Community
 
With this new forum, my hope is to give our community a place to talk about technology as it surrounds our products, and not just focus on the products themselves.
 
To this end, I've set up a few sub-forums:
StableBit Scanner - Compatibility
With all the different hardware out there (disk controllers, hard drives, ect...) it's tough to know what works best, especially when dealing with SMART passthrough.
I'd like this to be the place to discuss what works and what doesn't.
  StableBit DrivePool - Hardware
StableBit DrivePool is a very fast pooling solution that is capable of creating very large pooling arrays.
Share your setup, brag about your pool size , and get hardware advice here. Nuts & Bolts
 
Recently I've been overhauling the manuals section over at stablebit.com/support (yes, it's way overdue), and I found it amazing how many intricacies there are to these little programs.
I realized that it might be fun to talk about these things so I've set up a new forum called Nuts & Bolts where I will be posting a topic every now and again about some technical aspect of our software. The topics will be open for discussion, so we can go back and forth about what people think about that particular topic.
 
Moderators
 
Our "Resident Gurus" Shane and saitoh183 will be joining us in the new forum as moderators, and we have Drashna (technical support) and myself as the Admins.

Hello!
 
I changed my System from WHS 2011 to Windows Server 2012.
 
In the first days i set the drivepool to duplicate some folders, and now i get this notification.
 
I just dont know what i have to change to get the access back.
 
After the OS change i had to change the folder security settings. 
Maybe i deleted something which is needed from drivepool?
 
 
regards peter

Hi, a month ago I needed to replace a damaged drive according to Scanner. I used the add/remove option in drivepool. It ended up with access denied. Tried many times with same result. So, drastically I just physically removed the drive from the server. I tought this happened because of the damaged drive. Yesterday, I wanted to replace one of my older drives with a new WD20efrx. Went again with the add/remove process and still got an access denied. This drive was healty according to Scanner. So, I believe I shouldn't have any problem removing a drive. Anyone have an idea of what Is going on?
 
Thanks,
 
Claude