I just updated on my old HP X510 Data Vault from WHS v1 to WSE 2012R2 and I am evaluating DrivePool (and Scanner) as successor for the WHS v1 DrivePool and Folder Duplication.
As the X510 only has 4 drive bays, I installed the OS on a 500GB SSD (Crucial m4) with 80GB for the system.
The rest of the drive (D:) should be used as landing zone for files copied via LAN to the server because I have installed 2 Seagate Archive 8TB HHDs as Data Drives (without driveletter) and I found them to be quite slow on bigger copy jobs (about 30 - 40 MB/s).
In DivePool I installed the SSD Optimizer Plugin and selected the SSD (D:) as SSD and the two HDDs as Archive.
For some of my folders in the pool are folder duplication is enabled. Realtime duplication is disabled, automated balancing is enabled and the "Nicht öfter als" (German Language) option is selected to 2 hours.
Now, when I copy files to not duplicated folder the SSD works as landing zone and after some hours the data has moved from the SSD to the archive drives. This is exactly what I expected.
But, when I copy files to a duplcation enabled folder, the data is directly copied to the archive drive. I expected the same behavior: landing zone SSD and duplication later some time.
Is there any possibility to achieve this? Or does this work only with a second SSD which is not an option for me as the X510 only has 4 drive bays and I surely will have to add another big archive drive in the future.
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mwier
Hello,
I just updated on my old HP X510 Data Vault from WHS v1 to WSE 2012R2 and I am evaluating DrivePool (and Scanner) as successor for the WHS v1 DrivePool and Folder Duplication.
As the X510 only has 4 drive bays, I installed the OS on a 500GB SSD (Crucial m4) with 80GB for the system.
The rest of the drive (D:) should be used as landing zone for files copied via LAN to the server because I have installed 2 Seagate Archive 8TB HHDs as Data Drives (without driveletter) and I found them to be quite slow on bigger copy jobs (about 30 - 40 MB/s).
In DivePool I installed the SSD Optimizer Plugin and selected the SSD (D:) as SSD and the two HDDs as Archive.
For some of my folders in the pool are folder duplication is enabled. Realtime duplication is disabled, automated balancing is enabled and the "Nicht öfter als" (German Language) option is selected to 2 hours.
Now, when I copy files to not duplicated folder the SSD works as landing zone and after some hours the data has moved from the SSD to the archive drives. This is exactly what I expected.
But, when I copy files to a duplcation enabled folder, the data is directly copied to the archive drive. I expected the same behavior: landing zone SSD and duplication later some time.
Is there any possibility to achieve this? Or does this work only with a second SSD which is not an option for me as the X510 only has 4 drive bays and I surely will have to add another big archive drive in the future.
Thanks!
Michael
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