Ok, I'm definitely going to buy DrivePool when I get paid. I'm still "on the fence" about Scanner. I've completely uninstalled (and removed all previous settings) and reinstalled the correct version (via wssx file). I've been letting it go through it's paces and seems to be working much smoother now. In fact, it might just be my new processor I installed yesterday. Anyway, I've noticed a lot of SMART warning popping up in my WHS Alerts about overheating. I've ignored those issues for now because I've been doing a lot of "pooling" with to migrate my storage from WHS v1 to the new WHS 2011. However, a couple of the Alerts have been specific to things like exceeding Load Cycle Count. From the details, this is a report of how many "parks" it has done. I've had a couple of these drives for a few years now, and I expect them to die eventually. But it got me to thinking. In the "Disk Control" area, I can configure different aspects of some of these drives. I'm curious what the best practices would be for a WHS that does daily client backups and then runs on-demand for video file sharing. I believe in WHS v1 I manually went through each drive's Windows Properties and configured them to use Quick Removal modes, and configured the power scheme to never power down the drives. However, one of my drives is exceeding that recommended Load Cycle Count (most likely from power ups and suspends). Is there a preferred method to configure my drives so they'll last longer?
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Ok, I'm definitely going to buy DrivePool when I get paid. I'm still "on the fence" about Scanner. I've completely uninstalled (and removed all previous settings) and reinstalled the correct version (via wssx file). I've been letting it go through it's paces and seems to be working much smoother now. In fact, it might just be my new processor I installed yesterday. Anyway, I've noticed a lot of SMART warning popping up in my WHS Alerts about overheating. I've ignored those issues for now because I've been doing a lot of "pooling" with to migrate my storage from WHS v1 to the new WHS 2011. However, a couple of the Alerts have been specific to things like exceeding Load Cycle Count. From the details, this is a report of how many "parks" it has done. I've had a couple of these drives for a few years now, and I expect them to die eventually. But it got me to thinking. In the "Disk Control" area, I can configure different aspects of some of these drives. I'm curious what the best practices would be for a WHS that does daily client backups and then runs on-demand for video file sharing. I believe in WHS v1 I manually went through each drive's Windows Properties and configured them to use Quick Removal modes, and configured the power scheme to never power down the drives. However, one of my drives is exceeding that recommended Load Cycle Count (most likely from power ups and suspends). Is there a preferred method to configure my drives so they'll last longer?
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