Some bits and pieces I do not understand (beginner alert! :-) )

[BluezNL]

So, I'm fresh to Drivepool and Drive Scanner, and I run into a few things that I don't understand. I hope someone can explain them to me.

Background: I recently build an AM4 home server, using 8x 4 TB drives (all leftovers, of which some of very questionable heritage, and some are even SMR's, brrr).

• Hardware: AM4 Asus Pro mainboard / Ryzen 5 3500X / Axagon PCES-SA6 / 16 GB RAM / HDD 9x HDD / 1x NVME / 1x SSD
• Software: Windows 11 / Drivepool / Drivescanner / HDD Sentinel
• Other software on the same machine: SqueezeBox (Lyrion) Server / Plex

 

I noticed a few things, and perhaps I don't understand how it exactly works.

1. In the Drivescanner window, it shows how many days ago the last scan took place. I have different periods set for filesystem scans and sector scans. What is exactly shown on that page? The last sector scan, or just any scan activity?

2. When I set in settings 'only perform within this window' it doesn't seem to matter whatever I set as 'unless disk scans are past due by xxx days'. It just never starts scanning, unless I use 'perform work at any time'.

A bug, or something I don't understand? (Probably the latter 🙂 )

3. Under throttling I use 'do not interfere' with 'high sensitivity' which is ok. I was just wondering why 'scan using background' would never trigger a scan, even when there's nto a single user or other application (but the generic services) actively accessing any of the drives.

Again, I'm a newby with Drivepool and Drivescanner...

 

 

[Shane]

A1. It looks like it's based on the oldest scanned block. If you expand the drive (the + sign) it shows the sector scanning and you can see the date and time of when that happened to the upper right of the grid map, which at least on mine matches up.

A2. The tooltip mentions that it's "only when disks have to be re-checked" and the tooltip for "unless disk scans are past due by" mentions it won't do anything until the disk has already been scanned at least once?

A3. Could be Windows-related; I've had Windows insist a drive is in use even when Resource Monitor is saying there aren't any files open?

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