DrivePool Beta Version and Windows File Cache

[innocentx]

Hi!

 

I'm using DrivePool on my Windows Home Server 2011 for almost 2 years now and it works great so far. Thank you so much for that great piece of software.

 

I wanted to try out the latest beta version because I've read in the forum, that it contains the latest bugfixes. The beta works fine (2.2.0.738_x64_BETA) and it seems a reboot of my server runs faster with the beta.

 

On the other hand reading of files with the beta version runs very slow. Usually a scan of my music files with Logitech Media Server takes appr. 2 hours when DrivePool release version is installed. With the the beta version the scan of music files takes more than 12(!) hours).

 

With the beta version there's the tab missing for activating Windows Cache in the properties of "Covecube Virtual Disk" in the device manager. After reinstalling the release version of DrivePool, everything works again as expected and the missing tab in the properties of "Covecube Virtual Disk" is back again.

 

Is there any (not dangerous) possibility to activate the Windows Cache with the beta version? Of course I understand if not... because it's beta.

 

Thanks a lot.

 

[Spider99]

Its not there on 2012r2 either on latest beta so i appears to have been removed for the pooldrive

 

is it turned on on the real drives?

[innocentx]

is it turned on on the real drives?

 

Windows Cache ist activated on the real drives of the pool.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

The Write Caching policy in Device Management doesn't really affect the Pool.  

 

And the reason it "disappeared" is that the drive is no longer treated as a removable drive. 

 

You can change that if you reall want:

http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_2.x_Advanced_Settings

Set "CoveFs_IsDiskRemovable" to "True".

 

But this won't affect performance on the drive, at all. it's mostly a cosmetic thing, that doesn't work 100%. 

 

 

As for the performance issues, that's odd. 

Make sure that Read Striping is enabled. 

 

Aside from that, do this:

http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_2.x_Log_Collection