-I'm using Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2. When I first installed drivepool (and for the next few reboots), I had the dashboard window and I also had a separate drivepool window (which was nice). I had to shut the server down completely for a few days and now when I boot it back up I have the dashboard scanner/drivepool/cloud tabs but no separate window for drivepool. I'm guessing that a plugin for the server OS might have restrictions, so was the separate window a bug after a fresh install or how do I go about opening the separate drivepool window again?
-I inserted disks in a random order and I guess the OS gave them a disk number based on when the hard drives powered on, i.e. the last disk bay says disk4? I was reading somewhere that this can't be undone easily?
-All of my disks are filled to the brim and I already read over a few things on the covecube wiki. My drivepool is D: and I'm not sure if I mounted the disk first then added it to the pool or vice versa, I think I tried it both ways then decided to try and get more info so I have this setup properly for my situation. Following the wiki I removed the disk letter then mounted the path for my first disk on the drivepool as "D:/DrivePool/R4D4" or (Row4Disk4), then I added it to the pool and before I went to stop the StableBit DrivePool system service (dedup was turned off in advance) to move the folders into the hidden poolpart folder, I noticed that the drivepool was already populated with files after I mounted that disk+added it to the pool... I'm confused on how these three actions affect the drivepool structure/function and what is the proper order to do this with full disks?
One of the main reasons for this was that I have a file structure on my main computer that shows what files are on which disk. So I wanted to keep both the file structure and the physical disk structure the same by putting them in their own folder on the pool based on their corresponding hardware location i.e. D:/DrivePool/R1D1 thru R4D4 (Row1Disk1 thru Row4Disk4) instead of dumping them all into one giant pool right away. Now I could just organize them separately outside of the pool, but it would be faster if I could pool some together as I'm organizing them for faster sorting then I'll move them into fewer main folders later on.
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-I'm using Windows Server Essentials 2012 R2. When I first installed drivepool (and for the next few reboots), I had the dashboard window and I also had a separate drivepool window (which was nice). I had to shut the server down completely for a few days and now when I boot it back up I have the dashboard scanner/drivepool/cloud tabs but no separate window for drivepool. I'm guessing that a plugin for the server OS might have restrictions, so was the separate window a bug after a fresh install or how do I go about opening the separate drivepool window again?
-I inserted disks in a random order and I guess the OS gave them a disk number based on when the hard drives powered on, i.e. the last disk bay says disk4? I was reading somewhere that this can't be undone easily?
-All of my disks are filled to the brim and I already read over a few things on the covecube wiki. My drivepool is D: and I'm not sure if I mounted the disk first then added it to the pool or vice versa, I think I tried it both ways then decided to try and get more info so I have this setup properly for my situation. Following the wiki I removed the disk letter then mounted the path for my first disk on the drivepool as "D:/DrivePool/R4D4" or (Row4Disk4), then I added it to the pool and before I went to stop the StableBit DrivePool system service (dedup was turned off in advance) to move the folders into the hidden poolpart folder, I noticed that the drivepool was already populated with files after I mounted that disk+added it to the pool... I'm confused on how these three actions affect the drivepool structure/function and what is the proper order to do this with full disks?
One of the main reasons for this was that I have a file structure on my main computer that shows what files are on which disk. So I wanted to keep both the file structure and the physical disk structure the same by putting them in their own folder on the pool based on their corresponding hardware location i.e. D:/DrivePool/R1D1 thru R4D4 (Row1Disk1 thru Row4Disk4) instead of dumping them all into one giant pool right away. Now I could just organize them separately outside of the pool, but it would be faster if I could pool some together as I'm organizing them for faster sorting then I'll move them into fewer main folders later on.
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