Can I remove the drive letters from pooled member drives?

[jbarr]

I have a 4-bay drive enclosure containing 4 drives, and I added all 4 to a new storage pool. So far, so good. The pool is currently duplicating. Windows Explorer shows the 4 member drives and the new DrivePool drive. Is there any problem with going into Disk Management and removing the drive letters from all of the member drives? This way, the "This PC" view would be clean and it would force me to just leave the member drives alone, and focus on the pooled drive.

 

Intuitively, it seems that DrivePool doesn't care about the drive letter, because it's smart enough to identify each drive at a lower lever. Normally, I would just remove the drive letters and see what happens, but I'm dealing with a couple terabytes of data, and I'm a bit paranoid about doing anything that could mess things up.

 

Jim Barr

[Spider99]

yep thats fine i have done it on mine

 

you can mount them to a NTFS folder - so you can get at them separately

 

or not mount them at all - although access to the disk directly does become more difficult if you do

 

drive pool uses the unc path so does not care about how windows "names" them

[jbarr]

Thanks! That's what I thought.

 

I like the idea of mounting as an NTFS folder. I never looked into that.

 

So I removed the drive letters from all pool member drives, and then mounted them all in a folder on the DrivePool virtual drive.

 

Windows Explorer is now clean!