So, I guess this is on me, but I wanted to share a bad experience with DrivePool.
I've been using DrivePool for a number of years, and though it generally works well, I find the balancing tools to be very frustrating if you want files to be placed on a specific drive, and drives to be written to in order of their performance.
Recently, I added a pair of 4TB SSDs to the pool, and wanted to move all of my music and photos exclusively to those drives.
Well, DrivePool's balancer is as dumb as rocks, and no matter how many times I set the file placement, disabled all other balancers, or even reset the DrivePool settings, I kept getting a message that DrivePool was "unable to move 3.5TB" in the file placement tab (to an empty drive with enough space) and those files were being left where they were.
So I did what I have done in the past, and assigned letters to my drives to move the files from the pool to that drive manually.
The next day, since it was a lot of small files and DrivePool had placed them on my slowest SMR drives, I do a re-measure of the pool… to find that it now has a lot of extra free space.
I guess that I forgot to disable the DrivePool service before moving these files, or I moved them from the pool rather than the individual drives, and they've now ceased to exist.
Now, my family photos should be backed up in two separate locations, and I have many binders full of CDs as my "backup" for that media (I am not looking forward to that project), but I also had data which I considered to be "not important enough for external backups" and instead relied on DrivePool's folder duplication feature to store several copies so that they could survive several disk failures. Well, that doesn't help when you moved those files off the pool, does it?
I'm not really expecting anything from this, just frustrated and venting.
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So, I guess this is on me, but I wanted to share a bad experience with DrivePool.
I've been using DrivePool for a number of years, and though it generally works well, I find the balancing tools to be very frustrating if you want files to be placed on a specific drive, and drives to be written to in order of their performance.
Recently, I added a pair of 4TB SSDs to the pool, and wanted to move all of my music and photos exclusively to those drives.
Well, DrivePool's balancer is as dumb as rocks, and no matter how many times I set the file placement, disabled all other balancers, or even reset the DrivePool settings, I kept getting a message that DrivePool was "unable to move 3.5TB" in the file placement tab (to an empty drive with enough space) and those files were being left where they were.
So I did what I have done in the past, and assigned letters to my drives to move the files from the pool to that drive manually.
The next day, since it was a lot of small files and DrivePool had placed them on my slowest SMR drives, I do a re-measure of the pool… to find that it now has a lot of extra free space.
I guess that I forgot to disable the DrivePool service before moving these files, or I moved them from the pool rather than the individual drives, and they've now ceased to exist.
Now, my family photos should be backed up in two separate locations, and I have many binders full of CDs as my "backup" for that media (I am not looking forward to that project), but I also had data which I considered to be "not important enough for external backups" and instead relied on DrivePool's folder duplication feature to store several copies so that they could survive several disk failures. Well, that doesn't help when you moved those files off the pool, does it?
I'm not really expecting anything from this, just frustrated and venting.
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