Well, I've been delaying DrivePool for some time now (we last spoke in Feb 2016). I was trying my disks in an Intel RAID5 configuration. I love it, but I loose a whole disk of space (on a 3 disks RAID) and expanding the RAID is a bit complicated and there are recovery issues (disks are unreadable on anything but another system with Intel RAID on it). So I want to buy a license to DrivePool and try it out. But it is important that I be able to dual boot the pool without it re-measuring every time I switch OSes.
So I want to re-direct ProgramData\Drivepool to a shared folder, or keep 2 separate folders and sync them on shutdown, whatever works best. However, you once told me the data in there was encrypted. I really fail to see why you do this, but it doesn't matter, what matters is what you use to encrypt. If you encrypt with the license, and I can share the license file, then no issue. But if you encrypt with the license + OS version + whatever, or if I use 2 separate licenses, then it wont work.
Can you check maybe with Alex? If he says "absolutely not it will never work because of the encryption" then I won't bother trying it.
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B00ze
Good day Christopher.
Well, I've been delaying DrivePool for some time now (we last spoke in Feb 2016). I was trying my disks in an Intel RAID5 configuration. I love it, but I loose a whole disk of space (on a 3 disks RAID) and expanding the RAID is a bit complicated and there are recovery issues (disks are unreadable on anything but another system with Intel RAID on it). So I want to buy a license to DrivePool and try it out. But it is important that I be able to dual boot the pool without it re-measuring every time I switch OSes.
So I want to re-direct ProgramData\Drivepool to a shared folder, or keep 2 separate folders and sync them on shutdown, whatever works best. However, you once told me the data in there was encrypted. I really fail to see why you do this, but it doesn't matter, what matters is what you use to encrypt. If you encrypt with the license, and I can share the license file, then no issue. But if you encrypt with the license + OS version + whatever, or if I use 2 separate licenses, then it wont work.
Can you check maybe with Alex? If he says "absolutely not it will never work because of the encryption" then I won't bother trying it.
Thanks.
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