Stablebit DrivePool or Division-M Drive Bender

Skeeter · 12 Jun 2015 at 20:02

Which should I get? This is for a Windows 10 box that will have 6 or 7 drives in it that will present as a single pool with folder shares on it. Some will be duplicated and others won't.

I've checked and Drive Bender has Windows 10 support and Drive Pool will have soon, probably before Windows 10 launches at the end of July.

Both are $30 for a single Home use license.

Thanks

Confused · 13 Jun 2015 at 13:05

I've been using DrivePool on my WHS2011 box for a couple of years now, and the best thing I can say about it is that it Just Works.

Install it, set up the pool, and never touch it again, until you want to add/remove a drive, and then it's just a couple of clicks.

DIABLO · 14 Jun 2015 at 12:25

Echo the above really, just works.

Skeeter · 14 Jun 2015 at 16:10

How many drives have you guys got, and how good is the folder duplication?

DIABLO · 14 Jun 2015 at 21:14

The max number of drives i've run is 6.

Confused · 16 Jun 2015 at 09:25

I've got 4 drives in my pool currently.

The folder duplication allows you to specify how many copies you want of each folder. And, you can drill down as far as you like into the folder structure, the duplication doesn't need to be at the very top level.

Kidge · 16 Jun 2015 at 12:47

As above can recommend DrivePool but only use it on two drives currently, also went and purchased Scanner with it too as they were packaged together in a deal.

Skeeter · 16 Jun 2015 at 20:08

3 - 0 to DrivePool at the moment...

Pho · 17 Jun 2015 at 13:19

Drivepool for me too. I chose it over DriveBender for some reason but I can't remember what now

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Skeeter · 18 Jun 2015 at 16:54

DrivePool it is then. I just need to wait for official Windows 10 support to come, and then book a week of work to migrate my server

jellybeard999 · 18 Jun 2015 at 18:32

Pho said:
Drivepool for me too. I chose it over DriveBender for some reason but I can't remember what now .

This. 7 drives and its been rock solid for a few years now on server 2008. I bought drivepool and the security jobby for about $20 or whatever the pack was

It just works, as others have said

kayomani · 18 Jun 2015 at 18:43

Another vote for Drivepool - Several years with 11 disks. No duplication mind you #yolo.

sparkymark75 · 20 Jun 2015 at 23:43

Another vote for DrivePool here. Just rebuilt my server last week, reinstall the software and it picks your pool up again and away it goes. Effortless and never had any issue with it in the 2 or 3 years I've used it.

kayomani · 26 Jun 2015 at 00:46

Got myself a copy of stablebit scanner too a week ago and I can recommend that for keeping an eye on your disks, hooks into drivepool which is nice.

It found 4 bad sectors which I didn't know about :|

Skeeter · 11 Jul 2015 at 17:11

Just to say I took the advice in here and grabbed StableBit DrivePool and its brilliant.

Its actually a little bit too simple. Everything just worked. I installed it, opened it, clicked Add against one of my drives and... That's it. Pool created.

I've added the 3 drives I'm going to use and now have an X:\ drive that's shows as being 12TB in size

. Its great having a proper drive letter rather than just the shares I had on WHS.

Methanoid · 7 Sep 2015 at 20:55

Doesnt have a recycle bin for the pool though does it? The Pool in Flexraid protects network deleted files... which Drivepool (and Bender) do not...

Not got a product that meets ALL my requirements yet....

Skeeter · 13 Sep 2015 at 10:59

Depends how you use it. Nothing gets deleted from my server storage, everything that's "dynamic" like documents and personal files are in OneDrive.