Stablebit Drivepool discussion thread.

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Just a thread to discuss this awesome piece of software.:D

http://stablebit.com/DrivePool/Overview

I have just rebuilt my Home server with Server 2012 R2 and installed this after having a play with storage spaces which was utter tripe,

Kudos to Stablebit. Its a very powerful tool and utterly makes me forget the fondness I had for WHS V1 that inevitably chugged to a halt two weeks ago,

I love it and the scanner software is amazing too.
 
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leezer3 said:
Windows has finally discovered the concept of a unified filesystem rather than drive letters then? :p

Haven't really investigated the app in question, but as far as I can see it's really just a fancy interface to NTFS junction points and a duplication bit added on. Plenty of apps that do this, and some of them free :)

Install Linux, a MAN's OS and then come back :D

-Leezer-
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Brilliant....I , myself, had this concept...and just wanted DE to stay

Drivepool doesn't have a fancy interface?
 
PaulC2K said:
ER, I've finally got my new system and its up and running now in 2012 R2 and once ive got the basics of the OS installed and running how i'd need i'll be installing drivepool after you recommended it in the HP Microserver thread.

One thing i didnt get an answer on, possibly because you dont know yourself, but i'd read about 'Storage Spaces Tiering' here
http://blogs.technet.com/b/josebda/...spaces-tiering-in-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx

I've googled Drivepool Tiering and it basically suggests Drivepool [p2p filesharing file] so im not sure if its not available with Drivepool, or maybe it is it just that SS calls it Tiering just like SS used to be DE not that long ago.
I've gone and purchased a cheap 64GB SSD purely for this purpose, so i have 4 in 3 systems and im hoping that i'll be able to put 2 into this server, one for the OS and one within drivepool to increase data transfer speeds somewhat.
If i cant do it, i'll just use it in my gaming machine for additional storage for games, but im hopeful that it can be utilised in DP.

Do you know anything about this by any chance? Im hoping to understand it before i install it, simply because of it being a 30-day trial and i dont want to waste 2wk of that figuring out something and not really getting to experience it in action for as long as i'd hope.
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Yes Drivepool can use SSD's as cache drives to speed up pool performance:)
 
Gman said:
yep that was my fall back before, I'd just create shares on each drive like "Moves E, Movies D" etc. So then when I know which drive it is I can query the Kodi database for that location, but with Drivepool they all point to the same place.

Is there a column in the database that indicates that a movies missing then ?
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You're best bet is to post on the stablebit forum...support is excellent.
 
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