Every HDD spins up on accessing the pool

[ITN]

Hello, I've been using the trial version for a week now and I'm pretty happy with the product and will probably be buying. However I do have a question regarding pool access.

 

I noticed that every time I access the pool from another PC on the network, every pooled drive on the PC with drivepool spins up. Is there any way to "cache" the directory list so that drives would only spin up on file access, and only the drive which contains the file?

 

My main usage scenarios involve Kodi media center, but the spin up behaviour seems to be the same with Windows explorer also.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

I noticed that every time I access the pool from another PC on the network, every pooled drive on the PC with drivepool spins up. Is there any way to "cache" the directory list so that drives would only spin up on file access, and only the drive which contains the file?

 

In theory, NTFS should be doing this anyways. 

 

Something that may help, is running "fsutil set memoryusage 2" and reboot the system. THis increases NTFS' memory usage and may help reduce this.

 

 

Alternatively, try using the "Ordered File Placement" balancer. This should fill one disk at a time, and may help prevent it form waking all of the disks when the system is accessed.

 

https://stablebit.com/DrivePool/Plugins

[ITN]

Ok, thanks for the tips, I'll have to try those!

[Christopher (Drashna)]

You're very welcome. Hopefully, they help!

[Gnarfoz]

Something that may help, is running "fsutil set memoryusage 2" and reboot the system. THis increases NTFS' memory usage and may help reduce this.

 

That "tweak" is a no-op: https://tweakhound.com/2009/12/11/ntfsmemoryusage2-tweak/