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  1. Hi, I am currently evaluating DrivePool and mostly consider it because of its advertised read striping feature. However, there seems to be a bug or an existing bug (I have read related issues by other users dating back to 2015) has never been fixed. Here is my setup: I run on the latest Windows 10, 4 HDDs (WD Re 4TB, 170 Megabytes/second read performance for sequential data), which I pooled and chose 4x duplication. I copied several files and folders onto the pool and selected the following options: * Duplication -Enabled * Number Duplications: 4 ( I verified that the files and folders are in fact on each of the 4 hard drives - so DrivePool did its job at duplicating the data written into the pool) * Read Striping - Enabled * Realtime-Duplication - Enabled *Bypass file system filters - Enabled * File Protection - Pool File Duplication I ensured the data are in fact on each of the 4 drives. I then copied a single large file and also an entire directory, containing several multi GB large files to an NVME SSD drive (1.8 GB write performance so definitely no bottleneck here) with the same disappointing result: File transfer speed maxes out at around 150 Megabytes per second. Here some observations: * Initially I could see how only one drive was read from. But what points me to hint at this being bug (or at least a highly undesirable solution) is that DrivePool then jumped all over the place by reading for a second or two from 2 drives, then 2 others, then 3, then 1, then all four in a completely unpredictable manner. When >1 drives were read from the read performance on each individual drive most of the time dropped to <10 mb/second though 1 drive had larger throughput (not always the same drive). All in all, the read performance stayed relatively stable between 140-150 mb/second, but read striping is definitely not working as intended or desired on my end. With 4x duplication I expect at the very least 400 mb/sec throughput when reading identical data from 4 drives. Please note that all 4 HDDs are 100% identical brands/models/capacity. All are on 1 SATA 6 controller. I also eliminated the possibility of bottlenecks of my hardware components. I setup a Windows StorageSpaces Simple Virtual Disk with 4 columns (basically striping across all 4 HDDs) and I got a persistent read performance above 600 megabytes/second when reading from the virtual disk that comprised the 4 HDDs in Storage Space's Raid0 version. So, definitely no bottlenecks on my hardware/SATA controller/HDDs. What particularly worries me is the inconsistent jumping between different drives in the pool when reading in (read-striping enabled mode). Whether this is a bug in read-striping itself or a bug in the evaluation of the controller bandwidth or a an advanced setting that has to be enabled but is not by default I do not know, but I know that the current read-striping is not what is promised. Could some of you share whether this feature works for you and what throughput increase you see when you read from 2x, 3x, 4x, ... duplicated files in your pools? Also if the developer or support could chime in this would be awesome. I am urgently looking for a product that provides read-performance improvements and mirrored data resiliency at the same time. But I cannot consider this product for purchase with such currently abysmal read-striping performance. Any hints are welcome and maybe it is just me who overlooked a setting or feature that needs to be enabled but which I forgot to enable.
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