I've got 4 new 3TB WD red drives. Using DrivePool beta v2.0.0.332 64bit on WHS 2011.
I had started moving files from my old server over to the new one. I noticed something I didn't like so I was going to just wipe the whole server install and start again.
I wanted to cleanly remove the hard drives from the pool, just to make sure there was no hidden meta data still on them. So I went into the drive pool for each subdirectory and deleted all the files.
I then went into the UI and clicked remove. It then quickly jumps to 90% and then starts moving files around. There should be no files to move around. I had already deleted everything.
The screen shot shows I have already done this on two drives and am now on the third one. Under Space - Other is shows that there is still 403GB of data on the pool.
I hovered over the activity shown in Disk Performance and I see it is moving files for some hidden \S-1-5-21-..... location.
Why are those files there and why are they getting moved around?
Is there an easier way to just 'kill' a pool quickly? Don't want to spend what is turning into hours just to start a new clean server reinstall.
Should I have uninstalled DrivePool and then just reformted the hard drives?
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I've got 4 new 3TB WD red drives. Using DrivePool beta v2.0.0.332 64bit on WHS 2011.
I had started moving files from my old server over to the new one. I noticed something I didn't like so I was going to just wipe the whole server install and start again.
I wanted to cleanly remove the hard drives from the pool, just to make sure there was no hidden meta data still on them. So I went into the drive pool for each subdirectory and deleted all the files.
I then went into the UI and clicked remove. It then quickly jumps to 90% and then starts moving files around. There should be no files to move around. I had already deleted everything.
The screen shot shows I have already done this on two drives and am now on the third one. Under Space - Other is shows that there is still 403GB of data on the pool.
I hovered over the activity shown in Disk Performance and I see it is moving files for some hidden \S-1-5-21-..... location.
Why are those files there and why are they getting moved around?
Is there an easier way to just 'kill' a pool quickly? Don't want to spend what is turning into hours just to start a new clean server reinstall.
Should I have uninstalled DrivePool and then just reformted the hard drives?
Would that remove any DrivePool meta data?
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