I have 2 drives. They are both using the same controller expansion card. When I installed them, I named each one in Windows Disk Manager to help me identify them. One is a Western Digital and the other is a Hitachi. The Western Digital is labeled as "PSU" (it's not safe at the moment, but it's sitting on top of the PSU) and the Hitachi is labeled as "Expansion Bay 5 - Server Backup". Before I added the Western Digital one into the DrivePool, I noticed DP was detecting BOTH drives as the WD. The only way I knew which was which was because I had named them in Disk Manager. The same was true in Scanner to a degree. I was going through the drives in my system and assigning them Locations for my SMS alerts. When I came to these 2 drives, They appeared in the Scanner screen with their correct Model Numbers, but when I check their Disk Details, the Hitachi is being detected as the WD (just like the DrivePool was doing). As it is right now, I have no way to bring up the actual drive details of the Hitachi. It always comes up as WD. (see image)
I just want to know if this is a mere aesthetic issue, or a more serious underlying problem that I will experience in more detail as I go forward. If I add the WD to the DrivePool, is DP going to mistakenly add the Hitachi as well? If I assign the Hitachi as not in the pool, will Scanner still be able to scan the drive?
When I was getting all my drives into the pool yesterday, I noticed it was spanning data across all the drives EXCEPT the WD. It's almost like it wasn't there (even though it WAS in the list). Could this be a problem with the controller? Could it be drivers? Or is it maybe something in the program?
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I have 2 drives. They are both using the same controller expansion card. When I installed them, I named each one in Windows Disk Manager to help me identify them. One is a Western Digital and the other is a Hitachi. The Western Digital is labeled as "PSU" (it's not safe at the moment, but it's sitting on top of the PSU) and the Hitachi is labeled as "Expansion Bay 5 - Server Backup". Before I added the Western Digital one into the DrivePool, I noticed DP was detecting BOTH drives as the WD. The only way I knew which was which was because I had named them in Disk Manager. The same was true in Scanner to a degree. I was going through the drives in my system and assigning them Locations for my SMS alerts. When I came to these 2 drives, They appeared in the Scanner screen with their correct Model Numbers, but when I check their Disk Details, the Hitachi is being detected as the WD (just like the DrivePool was doing). As it is right now, I have no way to bring up the actual drive details of the Hitachi. It always comes up as WD. (see image)
I just want to know if this is a mere aesthetic issue, or a more serious underlying problem that I will experience in more detail as I go forward. If I add the WD to the DrivePool, is DP going to mistakenly add the Hitachi as well? If I assign the Hitachi as not in the pool, will Scanner still be able to scan the drive?
When I was getting all my drives into the pool yesterday, I noticed it was spanning data across all the drives EXCEPT the WD. It's almost like it wasn't there (even though it WAS in the list). Could this be a problem with the controller? Could it be drivers? Or is it maybe something in the program?
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