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Sorry for the belated reply, lwetzel. No, you shouldn't need to remove it from the pool. Taking a disk offline can be done via Windows Disk Management (right-click the Disk info box), though as the disk then becomes inaccessible to chkdsk etc, I'm w…
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Hi Ian, sorry, not much experience myself with the DP 2 beta for Win 7. Though I can see how there could be problems removing one of the last two drives in a duplicated pool. I don't know whether restarting would help, though at least it should not …
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P.S. Turns out if I don't run dpcmd as an administrator (or cmd as an administrator under which I run dpcmd), it doesn't work.
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I'm having some trouble with dpcmd myself at the moment. However, you might want to try Everything by Voidtools (www.voidtools.com) to monitor the poolparts in real-time to see where drivepool creates instances (and how many) of files that you put i…
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Yes, that's pretty much it: connect the drives to the new server and install drivepool on the new server (in either order), the pool should be automatically detected (you might need to reboot once).
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Given Scanner is saying all is good whilst emailing you that all is not good, I'd suggest reporting this to http://stablebit.com/contact for direct technical support.
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Yes. However, re performance impacts, these links may be of help: Best practices for NTFS compression in Windows - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251186Arstechnica forum thread (ancient but still relevant) - http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.p…
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It doesn't look like anyone in the forum has a quick fix (anyone?); I would suggest if you haven't found a solution to contact Stablebit via the contact form - http://stablebit.com/contact - and request assistance directly. Hopefully Alex will be ab…
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It does seem more than coincidental that the rules updated today. As it is an Intel SSD, you could compare Scanner's report with Intel's own SSD Toolbox software's report?
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The WHS 2011 dashboard has two options, titled "Add a folder" and "Add a folder to the pool"; the former allows you to browse to a folder that already exists on the pool, while the latter only allows creating a new folder on the pool. If you want to…
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The root of the pool drive, aka the DrivePool drive, not the root of one of the pooled drives that form it. The $RECYCLE.BIN in the PoolPart is the pool's recycle bin, which is separate from the physical drive's recycle bin. QSM_VolumeID is indeed …
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Each pool has its own Recycle Bin, which is physically instantiated as a $RECYCLE.BIN folder (with the hidden and system attributes) directly under the hidden root PoolPart.GUID folder in its physical drives. So you would configure a pool's recycle …
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Hi Kurt. Windows Home Server 2011 has a Dashboard, and DrivePool for WHS 2011 is integrated with it; Windows 8 does not, so DriveProol for Windows 8 has a "standalone" interface. So the references in the guide to the Dashboard are pretty much a WHS …
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Hi, can you please report this bug to http://stablebit.com/contact for Alex's attention?
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When you changed the pool drive letter, did you do a reboot before running the WSS Troubleshooter to fix the shares? If not, the troubleshooter will still be looking for the old letter.
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Thanks for the update!
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(TLDR: it's not something to worry about, but if we can fix the 669 byte unduplicated leftover, that would be nice) "Other", being outside the pool, is not of concern to DrivePool (unless it's getting so big that it's significantly competing for spa…
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0. If any drive on the system disk was part of the pool, remove it from the pool. (on a standard WHS 2011 install, this could only be "D:" drive) (on e.g. Windows 7, it could include "C:" drive and others) (if step zero fails, do not continue thes…
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So far so good with my WD Greens, though I've also recently bought a pair of 3TB WD Reds to replace other dying/dead drives. Here's to hoping they're all they're touted to be. Re cooking drives, Scanner is good for seeing all your drive conditions …
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A1a. Yes, that's the best way: unplug all but OS disk, install WHS, plug data disks in, install drivepoool. A1b. You can use Disk Management to change drive letters, and you can use the WSS Troubleshooter tool to fix broken pool shares after changin…
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If you have pooled drives with files that are not in the pool, they get put under "other" (e.g. if you had a 4GB file in \somefolder and then added drive to the pool, \somefolder would not be in the pool and that 4GB would count towards the "other"…
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That's correct.
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If you had - for example - two drives of 500GB 320GB in the pool, then 180GB (500-320) would be "unusable for duplication". If you also had files on those two drives that were not in the pool, they would be "other" (e.g. if you add your OS drive to …
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Hi NickM, could you try again, this time with the reboot after step 2 and before step 3, and also make sure c:\program files\stablebit\drivepool was removed in step 3? If it fails again, check c:\programdata\microsoft\windows server\logs\InstallAddi…
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Could be a bug. I would submit it to http://stablebit.com/contact for Alex to investigate?
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My bad. Balancing menu is indeed available from at least DP 2.0.0.202 beta onwards; click the upright triangle adjacent to the pie chart for your pool and choose Balancing....
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Hi taaars. If DrivePool detects a drive in a pool has failed (including being disconnected or switched off, e.g. a USB-attached external drive), it switches that pool to read-only mode until that drive returns to operation or is removed from the poo…
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It might be a beta bug - on Win 7, at least, with DP version 2.0.0.202 you change the pool drive letter via Disk Management. I'd suggest submitting a bug report via http://stablebit.com/contact (in the meantime, a rough kludge would be to add a bunc…
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I'd suspect it has something to do with the balancing algorithm's tendency to pick whatever drive has the most free space when first writing any given file to the pool. There are default limits (that you can manually adjust from the Balancing menu i…
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Hi hauge48, to start completely from scratch, in addition to uninstalling DrivePool and deleting the PoolPart directories, you may need to delete the "C:\ProgramData\StableBit DrivePool" directory.