I was wondering what the best practices are for moving files around between drives within a pool. I have a number of drives that are giving me SMART warnings, and I want to move the contents of those drives onto other healthy drives on the same pool that have plenty of available space.
Is this the recommended procedure:
1. Stop DrivePool Service
2. Move the content from within the DrivePool hidden folder from the source disk to the target disk as seen in the below screenshot:
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pclausen
I was wondering what the best practices are for moving files around between drives within a pool. I have a number of drives that are giving me SMART warnings, and I want to move the contents of those drives onto other healthy drives on the same pool that have plenty of available space.
Is this the recommended procedure:
1. Stop DrivePool Service
2. Move the content from within the DrivePool hidden folder from the source disk to the target disk as seen in the below screenshot:
3. Start DrivePool Service
4. Remove empty drive(s) from DrivePool via GUI
Thanks!
Peter
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