file duplication vs folder duplication

[Bear]

Cooee all

I hope this finds everyone well    🤪

I bought another 10TB HDD & this brings my Drivepool up to 155TB - yay     🎆

I had 155TB b4, but 1 of my 10TB HDD would not stop putting up bad flags,

but when I do Seatools, Covecube Scanner, for that fact any HDD tool, it passed all 

and every HDD tool you throw at it, or run the software at it; it just passed all tests!

But when I even did a clean of the HDD via diskpart, it qickly threw an error while using Drivepool   

So what do I do?  I can't send it in for warranty as it is 6 months because it will pass

Seatools as I ran it overnight for no errors.  I just have it set to 1 side and waiting till I could afford another 1 on my pension.

 

But now I see this under 'manage pool' & I never really thought about it, until now, because when I have to reboot my PC,

it starts to do the re-measure all over again; then after, it will use the Scanner program.  All these programs slow down my PC.

It has always been on 'file' duplication, I was wondering, would it be faster if it was on 'folder' duplication?

And can it be done now after all these years?  Or just leave things as they are & let the software do its thing &

all I do is start the Scanner program once the Drivepool gives the green light down below;

I didn't want the Scanner going at the same time as the Drivepool

 

Did you know that from Monday next week, there are only 10 days till Christmas!  Bloody Hell eh

Do you know why Santa has no kids?

It is because he only comes once, and even then it is down the chimney

(it is probably how he slips down the chimney so easily   😜)

[Shane]

Hi Bear, keep it safe for work please.

Re the bad drive does it still have the same problem if you switch it around with another drive's bay in the machine?

Re your pool doing a re-measure every time you reboot the machine - if it's a hard reboot rather than a Windows shutdown/restart then that's a safety precaution. If however it is still doing the re-measure after a normal Windows restart then it might be a problem with how quickly your drives are powering up / being recognised by the OS.

Re the "Pool" versus "Folder" duplication, the difference is "Pool" sets duplication for every file in the pool (so every file is not duplicated, or every file is x2 duplicated, or x3 or whatever) while "Folder" sets duplication for files per-folder (e.g. if you wanted to have files in one folder at x2 duplication and files in a different folder at x4 duplication or whatever).

Also only 10 days from Monday next week til Christmas? It's still October!

[Bear]

Do'h, 10 weeks from next Monday till Christmas; I was close.

The HDD still shows the problem if I move it around in my DAS, I have had my DAS for yonks & this has never happened before with any HDD.  It doesn't make sense to be doing this

I will leave it at pool duplication then - easy.  Thank you Shane