Moving disks from inside computer case to Probox

[dsteinschneider]

I have an 8TB WD80EZRX and 6TB WD60EFRX in a Dell Vostro 430 that I'm just now realizing has only SATA II connectors. Was examining drives in Scanner and noticed their connection is SATA Rev 3.1 (3Gbps of 6Gbps Max) 

Now that I've added a pair of 14TB Ultrastars I'm removing smaller/slower drives from my Proboxes and want to move the two drives from the computer case into the Proboxes. Can I just power down and move them - will the pool see them the same once moved to the Probox?

[Rob Manderson]

As long as Drivepool can see the drives it'll know exactly which pool they belong to.  I move drives around regularly between my server and an external diskshelf and they always reconnect to the correct pools.

[dsteinschneider]

Thanks Rob, DrivePool correctly found the drives. Am I correct that if I wanted to re-assign the drive letters of the physical drives it will work the same way?

EDIT - went ahead and re-assigned drive letters - DrivePool adjusted itself immediately 

[Christopher (Drashna)]

On 3/12/2022 at 5:38 PM, dsteinschneider said:

Thanks Rob, DrivePool correctly found the drives. Am I correct that if I wanted to re-assign the drive letters of the physical drives it will work the same way?

To clarify, StableBit DrivePool doesn't use the drive letters or mount points.  It uses the volume ID for the disks.  So you can change how the drive is mounted without any issues. 

Personally, I prefer mounting the drives to folder paths, as that hides them, but still allows them to be accessible. 

[dsteinschneider]

I have two 3TB Greens that are SATA II (3Gbps) - does the balancer know to put things on the faster mostly empty drives I just added? I'm asking because one is empty now and the other only has 5GB. I decided to remove them but I got an error that says Access Denied. Any advice on correcting this issue will be appreciated. I want to use them to backup media and store offline. 

EDIT - there was an error at some point about invalid filenames (maybe too long) - these had some backups of data that the user made folder names like "This is the new folder I'm keeping data until the auditors decide what I need to keep or not for fiscal year 2020 unless there is some file here that need to be redone"

[dsteinschneider]

I finally checked all three checkboxes in the remove drive dialog and it succeeded in removal.