New user here who is keen to move to DrivePool and SnapRAID from FlexRAID as it seems more transparent and better supported. On a trial for DrivePool and Scanner at the moment and have hit a couple of areas that I would like to get a bit of advice on before going any further:
1. The initial Drivepool setup has chosen a drive letter that I want to change. I have now filled the pool quite a bit, and added a couple of shared folders, is it still as simple as making the adjustment in Disk Management or do I need to follow a more complex procedure?
2. When changing drive letters (or any other disk tasks) do I need to exit DrivePool or Scanner? To close either down is there anything more to it than the top right X as Scanner still seems to show notifications after the window is closed, but there is no right click menu in the notification tray icon.
3. When cutting and pasting folders round inside a drive pool, am I right in thinking by default it keeps the files on the same drive and just moves them to a matching folder on that drive? Interested as the moving seemed instant at the time.
4. Given my intended setup of using with SnapRAID, I do not want the drives changing the location of existing data regularly. What I would ideally like to do is run a balancing process once when the majority of my data is moved across, then have Drivepool only balance new data it is adding. What would be the best method to achieve this? I can see the Disk Space Equalizer plugin which I am guessing installing, running then removing will get the balance sorted, what is the best settings for the balancing after that?
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New user here who is keen to move to DrivePool and SnapRAID from FlexRAID as it seems more transparent and better supported. On a trial for DrivePool and Scanner at the moment and have hit a couple of areas that I would like to get a bit of advice on before going any further:
1. The initial Drivepool setup has chosen a drive letter that I want to change. I have now filled the pool quite a bit, and added a couple of shared folders, is it still as simple as making the adjustment in Disk Management or do I need to follow a more complex procedure?
2. When changing drive letters (or any other disk tasks) do I need to exit DrivePool or Scanner? To close either down is there anything more to it than the top right X as Scanner still seems to show notifications after the window is closed, but there is no right click menu in the notification tray icon.
3. When cutting and pasting folders round inside a drive pool, am I right in thinking by default it keeps the files on the same drive and just moves them to a matching folder on that drive? Interested as the moving seemed instant at the time.
4. Given my intended setup of using with SnapRAID, I do not want the drives changing the location of existing data regularly. What I would ideally like to do is run a balancing process once when the majority of my data is moved across, then have Drivepool only balance new data it is adding. What would be the best method to achieve this? I can see the Disk Space Equalizer plugin which I am guessing installing, running then removing will get the balance sorted, what is the best settings for the balancing after that?
Thanks in advance for any advice
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