I am relatively new to the Stablebit set of programs, but am loving all three so far! However, I do have one problem that stems from my lack of knowledge.
I have 11 drives, ranging from 500gb to 8TB. I also have a 12th "drive," which is a 3rd generation DAS Drobo with 4x4TB disks in it. Drivepool sees it as one large drive (which it should).
Drivepool works great, but it sees the Drobo as a 16TB drive, and wants to put all material on it, since it appears to have the most available space. That's a problem, since the Drobo really starts throwing alerts after 10.85 TB due to its own duplication (it's one reason I want to move away from using it, but don't have the space to completely abandon it yet). It would be an easy fix if Drobo would allow users to disable this and use it as a JBOD enclosure, but there isn't a way to do that from what I can see.
I have looked at Ordered File Placement, but don't really understand how to set it up. If I enable it as the only balancer, there is nothing on the right (it simply says "No Settings"). According to the documentation, I should be able to set up a fill order to the disks, but for the life of me can't seem to understand how to do this.
Basically, I want the 11 other disks to fill up first, and leave the 16TB Drobo as a last resort. Is there a way to do this? From what I have been reading on these forums, it should be possible, but my lack of technical know-how seems to be the actual roadblock.
You guys have a great set of products, and I have been happy with everything thus far, so much so that I have purchased DrivePool and Scanner for both my home machines, and CloudDrive for one. I just hope that you can help me understand the File Placement rules and/or the Ordered File Placement Plugin so that I can enjoy it even more!
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Targg
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I am relatively new to the Stablebit set of programs, but am loving all three so far! However, I do have one problem that stems from my lack of knowledge.
I have 11 drives, ranging from 500gb to 8TB. I also have a 12th "drive," which is a 3rd generation DAS Drobo with 4x4TB disks in it. Drivepool sees it as one large drive (which it should).
Drivepool works great, but it sees the Drobo as a 16TB drive, and wants to put all material on it, since it appears to have the most available space. That's a problem, since the Drobo really starts throwing alerts after 10.85 TB due to its own duplication (it's one reason I want to move away from using it, but don't have the space to completely abandon it yet). It would be an easy fix if Drobo would allow users to disable this and use it as a JBOD enclosure, but there isn't a way to do that from what I can see.
I have looked at Ordered File Placement, but don't really understand how to set it up. If I enable it as the only balancer, there is nothing on the right (it simply says "No Settings"). According to the documentation, I should be able to set up a fill order to the disks, but for the life of me can't seem to understand how to do this.
Basically, I want the 11 other disks to fill up first, and leave the 16TB Drobo as a last resort. Is there a way to do this? From what I have been reading on these forums, it should be possible, but my lack of technical know-how seems to be the actual roadblock.
You guys have a great set of products, and I have been happy with everything thus far, so much so that I have purchased DrivePool and Scanner for both my home machines, and CloudDrive for one. I just hope that you can help me understand the File Placement rules and/or the Ordered File Placement Plugin so that I can enjoy it even more!
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