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I've been using Drivepool for a couple years now. It always bothered me that the drives weren't going to sleep and I want to fix it now. Since I use Bitlocker, I'm aware I need to set the Bitlocker_PoolPartUnlockDetect to false. But then what? Should I use the task manager to restart the drive pool service whenever I reattach my external USB drives? What about the native service? And why is a full restart necessary that takes quite long? Can't the UI just give me a refresh button that does once what the constant polling does currently? Besides I am sure there are possibilities to figure out if a bitlocker encrypted drive has been unlocked or not, without waking the drive up. My Windows event log shows under application and service protcols --> Microsoft --> Windows --> Bitlocker-API --> Management the events with ID 782 for when a volume was unlocked and 781 for when it was locked. It even gives a volume device path to indicate which volume was locked/unlocked in the \\?\Volume{<GUID>} format. If Drivepool can subscribe to that event log it would fix this long standing issue I and many other users are experiencing.

Hey, I have the Stablebit Scanner for over a year and I really like it . Last week I changed my backup HDD to a bigger size when I noticed a strange bug. The HDD is a Samsung Spinpoint M8 1TB and it has a standby time of a few seconds (when I check "automatic stanby" in the disk control menu). The normal standy timer seams to have no effect. Although I checked "Do not query if the disk has spun down", I heard the starting of the HDD motor every minute! The Power option only changes between "Standby" and "Active" when I enable "Query power mode directly from disk", but then there is an access every 10 seconds from the scanner and so the HDD starts every 10 seconds.... .Also enabling the option "do not query SMART" for the HDD does not prevent the HDD from starting. I can now thottle the SMART queries to 60 minutes and/or make the HDD 24/7 without standby, but because it is just a backup HDD which makes a backup every day for 30min, both things don't seam right. Is there an option I have overseen? Thanks in advance! Regards, Wonderwhy