I have a Seagate USB 6TB HDD that I would like to add to my existing 16 HDD DrivePool. However, I don't have 100% confidence in the HDD because I ran across a few corrupted files on it that were causing problems. I offloaded the entire HDD and moved those files to DrivePool. I ran a few MS diagnostic short tests on that HDD and it passed. I ran the Seagate Long Generic Seatools (almost 24 hours) test on it and it failed, but gave me no report what was wrong. I then loaded up HD Tune and ran the disk sector complete scan (about 18 hours) and it detected no errors and passed the drive as good. As of now, I am thinking\wishing that the Seagate 6TB drive is probably good. It could have just been those corrupted files that were causing some problems and maybe not any bad sectors on the HDD itself.
At this point, I would like to add that 6TB Seagate HDD to my DrivePool, but only let my backup media files to be placed on that HDD. That way, if the drive has problems, it would only affect files that I have archived elsewhere so I could rebuild the data. In other words, I only want that 6TB HDD to have the \movies folder on it an no other folders or files. Also, since I have \movies folder spread over the existing 16 HDDs in DrivePool, I cannot use File Placement to only check the one 6TB for that folder. In File Placement, I see how to check which drives the folder(s) can be placed on. Is there a way to select the HDD, and limit it to only accepting files for the \movies folder while still allowing the other HDDs to continue to also use the existing \movies folders.
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I have a Seagate USB 6TB HDD that I would like to add to my existing 16 HDD DrivePool. However, I don't have 100% confidence in the HDD because I ran across a few corrupted files on it that were causing problems. I offloaded the entire HDD and moved those files to DrivePool. I ran a few MS diagnostic short tests on that HDD and it passed. I ran the Seagate Long Generic Seatools (almost 24 hours) test on it and it failed, but gave me no report what was wrong. I then loaded up HD Tune and ran the disk sector complete scan (about 18 hours) and it detected no errors and passed the drive as good. As of now, I am thinking\wishing that the Seagate 6TB drive is probably good. It could have just been those corrupted files that were causing some problems and maybe not any bad sectors on the HDD itself.
At this point, I would like to add that 6TB Seagate HDD to my DrivePool, but only let my backup media files to be placed on that HDD. That way, if the drive has problems, it would only affect files that I have archived elsewhere so I could rebuild the data. In other words, I only want that 6TB HDD to have the \movies folder on it an no other folders or files. Also, since I have \movies folder spread over the existing 16 HDDs in DrivePool, I cannot use File Placement to only check the one 6TB for that folder. In File Placement, I see how to check which drives the folder(s) can be placed on. Is there a way to select the HDD, and limit it to only accepting files for the \movies folder while still allowing the other HDDs to continue to also use the existing \movies folders.
Any help appreciated. Thanks.
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