Question #1 - Starting a pool
I created a pool of 3 disks and nothing shows up in the newly created DrivePool.
I searched a bit and in a old thread 2015 thread I found I have to manually seed the pool by moving folders into PoolPartxxxx.
That works. Is it still the way things suppose to be done?
Question #2 - After the trial epires
I'm using a 30-day demo. What happens after that expires.
Can I still access my files and copy them back were they once were?
Question #3 - Balancing
When DrivePool starts balancing my disks, does that mean it copies files between my 3 drives as it sees fit?
If so that likely is great as long as I access my files using DrivePool but when directly go to my drives then the files will be scattered all over the 3 disks.
An example to explain my question. Suppose the 'Vaction2010' folder contains all my video's and photo's from that vaction. I put that folder in the DrivePool. Where will the individual photo's be? Still all in the same folder. Or scattered over 3 drives as a result of balancing them?
Question #4 - File access
I guess a side effect of using DrivePool is that all software has to be 'relinked' to the files via the DrivePool disk and not the original disk?
Question #5 - Mixing different speed drives
My drives all have different speeds. Some things are on the faster disk because they are used more frequently. Other things don't require speed or are rarely accessed. Is pooling such drives wise? I ask because if I understand balancing, it could turn out my frequently used files end up on the slowest HDD
Sorry for all the questions. I'm just a bit scared I totally mess up my well organized disks...
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Question #1 - Starting a pool
I created a pool of 3 disks and nothing shows up in the newly created DrivePool.
I searched a bit and in a old thread 2015 thread I found I have to manually seed the pool by moving folders into PoolPartxxxx.
That works. Is it still the way things suppose to be done?
Question #2 - After the trial epires
I'm using a 30-day demo. What happens after that expires.
Can I still access my files and copy them back were they once were?
Question #3 - Balancing
When DrivePool starts balancing my disks, does that mean it copies files between my 3 drives as it sees fit?
If so that likely is great as long as I access my files using DrivePool but when directly go to my drives then the files will be scattered all over the 3 disks.
An example to explain my question. Suppose the 'Vaction2010' folder contains all my video's and photo's from that vaction. I put that folder in the DrivePool. Where will the individual photo's be? Still all in the same folder. Or scattered over 3 drives as a result of balancing them?
Question #4 - File access
I guess a side effect of using DrivePool is that all software has to be 'relinked' to the files via the DrivePool disk and not the original disk?
Question #5 - Mixing different speed drives
My drives all have different speeds. Some things are on the faster disk because they are used more frequently. Other things don't require speed or are rarely accessed. Is pooling such drives wise? I ask because if I understand balancing, it could turn out my frequently used files end up on the slowest HDD
Sorry for all the questions. I'm just a bit scared I totally mess up my well organized disks...
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