I've been using a competing product for sometime, but I like the cleaness of DrivePool. I appear to have come unstuck though with migrating across. I've added a drive (with existing data) to a new pool and I was a) expecting this data to be in the pool and b ) for the individual drive to disappear from explorer. At present, the drive still exists in explorer and the data is not visible in the new drivepool pool. Is this expected behaviour?
Also, are there any advanced settings as my dashboard does not show anything at all. I've attached a screengrab to show what options I have available. Is there anyway to rename the pool as well?
At the moment, the other product is far more configurable but its dashboard integration is still quite poor; however I do like how it appears in the storage tab as another sub tab... Quite neat I think.
Anyway, thanks in advance for a response.
Chris
Ah hah! So it appears that in order for my new pooled drive to work I have to move the data from the existing drive number to the new pooled drive.
Another question; How does DrivePool deal with drive removal? For example the other program allows the removal of a drive at any time (and will use the SMART indicators to potentially shift data from a drive before it packs in) so that you remove it from the system blank... I presume that when you click remove from the pool Drivepool will do this automatically? does it tell you if you don't have any free space to do this operation?
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Benoire
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I've been using a competing product for sometime, but I like the cleaness of DrivePool. I appear to have come unstuck though with migrating across. I've added a drive (with existing data) to a new pool and I was a) expecting this data to be in the pool and b ) for the individual drive to disappear from explorer. At present, the drive still exists in explorer and the data is not visible in the new drivepool pool. Is this expected behaviour?
Also, are there any advanced settings as my dashboard does not show anything at all. I've attached a screengrab to show what options I have available. Is there anyway to rename the pool as well?
At the moment, the other product is far more configurable but its dashboard integration is still quite poor; however I do like how it appears in the storage tab as another sub tab... Quite neat I think.
Anyway, thanks in advance for a response.
Chris
Ah hah! So it appears that in order for my new pooled drive to work I have to move the data from the existing drive number to the new pooled drive.
Another question; How does DrivePool deal with drive removal? For example the other program allows the removal of a drive at any time (and will use the SMART indicators to potentially shift data from a drive before it packs in) so that you remove it from the system blank... I presume that when you click remove from the pool Drivepool will do this automatically? does it tell you if you don't have any free space to do this operation?
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