First off... great start! Been waiting for this for some time since posting a while back and so happy to see it. Now to get more drives to make room for this to work
So to my questions and suggestions.
In the Balancing > File Placement > Folders section I see the list of folders and then the list of available drives on the right for creation of that relationship...
1. Would it be possible to add the actual drive model/size to the list of drives?
2. If I remember correctly you said you do some level of performance measuring in DP (not sure to what extent). Does this info lend itself to applying a "good/better/best" color flagging to the drives in this list to gauge relative actual performance?
3. If not (or maybe as an enhancement to 2 above) have you thought of adding the ability to, on a schedule or manually, "test" all drives for performance indexing that can be applied to my suggestion 2 or some other way?
4. If you are selecting folders/drives in the folders tab and you hit "save" the entire dialog closes. Please add an "apply" button to create the actual rule rather than having every click create a rule. The problem here is you can easily end up with rules that don't automatically remove themselves if you "uncheck" what you changed.
5. When navigating down folders in the tree child folders should always display the drive selection of it's parent folder unless explicitly changed.
6. Along the lines of the apply/save comment maybe it could be "apply to rules" in the folders tab for the current selection(s) and then a ". Of course I know buttons should usually have single word but just stating as for examples sake.
Have you thought of creating more traditional rules that can be grown/expanded as needed? For example I might have a rule called "HD movies" and within that rule are all the folders and drives that apply to that rule. So I can have one rule for a given set of folders and assigned drives. If I delete that rule I remove all those custom relationships. If I ever want to assign a new folder to the rule I can just add the folder to the rule without having to create an entire new set of folder/drive assignments per folder. Assuming this makes sense. So in your Rules pane you'd have:
RuleName1
+Folders:
-- Folder 1
-- Folder 2
-- Folder 3
+Drives
-- Drive 1
-- Drive 2
-- Drive 3
RuleName2
+Folders
-- Folder 5
-- Folder 6
+Drives
-- Drive 2
-- Drive 4
-- Drive 5
Questions/comments aside thanks for such a great product. I don't know what I'd do without it... maybe use raid again /shudder.
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SantiagoDraco
First off... great start! Been waiting for this for some time since posting a while back and so happy to see it. Now to get more drives to make room for this to work
So to my questions and suggestions.
In the Balancing > File Placement > Folders section I see the list of folders and then the list of available drives on the right for creation of that relationship...
1. Would it be possible to add the actual drive model/size to the list of drives?
2. If I remember correctly you said you do some level of performance measuring in DP (not sure to what extent). Does this info lend itself to applying a "good/better/best" color flagging to the drives in this list to gauge relative actual performance?
3. If not (or maybe as an enhancement to 2 above) have you thought of adding the ability to, on a schedule or manually, "test" all drives for performance indexing that can be applied to my suggestion 2 or some other way?
4. If you are selecting folders/drives in the folders tab and you hit "save" the entire dialog closes. Please add an "apply" button to create the actual rule rather than having every click create a rule. The problem here is you can easily end up with rules that don't automatically remove themselves if you "uncheck" what you changed.
5. When navigating down folders in the tree child folders should always display the drive selection of it's parent folder unless explicitly changed.
6. Along the lines of the apply/save comment maybe it could be "apply to rules" in the folders tab for the current selection(s) and then a ". Of course I know buttons should usually have single word but just stating as for examples sake.
Have you thought of creating more traditional rules that can be grown/expanded as needed? For example I might have a rule called "HD movies" and within that rule are all the folders and drives that apply to that rule. So I can have one rule for a given set of folders and assigned drives. If I delete that rule I remove all those custom relationships. If I ever want to assign a new folder to the rule I can just add the folder to the rule without having to create an entire new set of folder/drive assignments per folder. Assuming this makes sense. So in your Rules pane you'd have:
RuleName1
+Folders:
-- Folder 1
-- Folder 2
-- Folder 3
+Drives
-- Drive 1
-- Drive 2
-- Drive 3
RuleName2
+Folders
-- Folder 5
-- Folder 6
+Drives
-- Drive 2
-- Drive 4
-- Drive 5
Questions/comments aside thanks for such a great product. I don't know what I'd do without it... maybe use raid again /shudder.
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