About a month ago my Win10 system started freezing. I found that if I ejected some of my 14 drive pool disks, the system would unfreeze and behave normally. Same with bootup. Disks in, boot up would stall when it got to the desktop. Remove some drives and it would resume fine.
I checked SMART, ran chkdsk, swapped STATA cables, replace my SATA port multiplier cards (2) with a LSI SCSI card, formatted and reinstalled windows. Every time I thought I was making progress I would end right back to the crawling/freezing (sometimes BSOD) system.
I even replaced 2 drives that I thought were culprits as they seemed to always be ones I would have to remove. The problem never really went away. Until last night, I think.
I found that on about 4 of my drives, including the two I had swapped out, my reparse\.covefs folder had 300k+ files in it, all created about a month ago on 2/5. These disks were causing the OS to stall, especially when DrivePool started measuring.
I put each offending disk in a USB enclosure, dropped into the command line, and ran del *.* in that folder. It took hours to clear out. However as the file count dropped below 100k, the system started running smoother. Eventually I cleared the folder each disk and (knock on wood), I think it worked. As of this morning DrivePool is measuring my pool, hopefully for the last time for awhile. When I get home we'll see if I'm back in business. I even think the drives I pulled out might still be good.
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Rob Platt
About a month ago my Win10 system started freezing. I found that if I ejected some of my 14 drive pool disks, the system would unfreeze and behave normally. Same with bootup. Disks in, boot up would stall when it got to the desktop. Remove some drives and it would resume fine.
I checked SMART, ran chkdsk, swapped STATA cables, replace my SATA port multiplier cards (2) with a LSI SCSI card, formatted and reinstalled windows. Every time I thought I was making progress I would end right back to the crawling/freezing (sometimes BSOD) system.
I even replaced 2 drives that I thought were culprits as they seemed to always be ones I would have to remove. The problem never really went away. Until last night, I think.
I found that on about 4 of my drives, including the two I had swapped out, my reparse\.covefs folder had 300k+ files in it, all created about a month ago on 2/5. These disks were causing the OS to stall, especially when DrivePool started measuring.
I put each offending disk in a USB enclosure, dropped into the command line, and ran del *.* in that folder. It took hours to clear out. However as the file count dropped below 100k, the system started running smoother. Eventually I cleared the folder each disk and (knock on wood), I think it worked. As of this morning DrivePool is measuring my pool, hopefully for the last time for awhile. When I get home we'll see if I'm back in business. I even think the drives I pulled out might still be good.
Any ideas as to what is going on?
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