Drive bender storage pool add-in for windows home server 2011

Keep it basic, keep it simple, and make it fun! This is a great write up Paul! I really appreciate the time you are putting into this.

Hey Paul. Agree, great job. You may like to know that v has just come out and it seems a lot of these setup issue have been put to bed. I have just run a bunch of tests on a vmware install and not a single issue with adding drives or merging data. Can u please give some comments on removing drives from pool? I has a real annoying problem where I had no choice but to force all my drives out of the pool. Now all my folders in the drives look like duplicates but are empty.

One folder on each drive does have everything that should be on the drive but now I have to manually go through each drive and fix the folders. I am in communication with drive bender to try and fix the issue.

This sounds like one of those annoying issues you talk about. Thanks for your comments. It sounds like you need to rebuild your pool. Have you tried that? As far as the file structure is concerned, there is an article that explains the file structure of DB:.

Privacy Policy Advertise Contact. Links monetized by VigLink. All rights reserved. First thing I would do, is reboot your system again. When I go to Drive Bender I would like to only create one large server folder for Videos that would span multiple drives.

I am sorry for the silly questions I am just trying to learn from your strategy. I kept one drive with my most important data seperate until I saw how Drive Bender performed. I did copy all of that data to Drive Bender so while you see the Server Folder pointed to a single drive, that data does reside in a copy on my Drive Bender pool. First, I wanted to make sure everything copied okay before I tore it down. So currently on my system I have 2 copies of my Videos. What I meant to say, is you can do what you want to do — which is have one drive which is 5 , 10, 15TB if you want, just like in WHS v.

Thanks for the answers. In my case I use multiple servers to backup my video library and music library to protect the hours of work that I have put in. I look forward to your next section of this interesting report. This sounds really scary. I am not sure I would trust a product which seems so unstable with my data. Thank you for the article. I am trying to install drive bender with your instructions as I am a non-tech type.

So far the info has been flawless. Did I miss something. However, the only drives that would be in the pool are ones that you added in. Can you explain a little more? I was confused when I wrote the piece. I now understand and have completed adding the hard drives of my choice.

As I went through the process it appeared to me that my initial drive with my whs op system on it was in the pool c: but it was not. I did not want my operating system backup for whs in the pool, but to an external hard drive and that is all ok and setup fine. Thanks for your article and patient response. I would very much like to follow your example to the letter, but am having trouble figuring out how to get my data D: off of my system drive, and on to a different physical disk as you recommend.

Is there another article or forum that you might recommend? Sorry if this is very basic. If I am interpeting correctly your comment, you are trying to remove files from your system drive in WHS v. You need to get a program, such as Drive Balancer, which will migrate the data the off of the system drive and onto your data drives. This should take care of the issue. In my case, I am using WHS It installs the OS on a C:, and data on D: on the same primary system disk.

Here are the instructions I used. Make sure you have NO data in drive d: when you do this. Privacy Policy Advertise Contact. Drive Bender released today version 1. This update corrects the following items:. Release v1. I have upgraded to this version and am currently working with it now. Drive Bender does seem more stable with this update.

They also have released a new manual, which seems to be a printed version of the online help. I really wanted to find out if this was true. I took a backup hard drive I had of some the data I had already imported and tried to merge that data in again. I fully expected it to overwrite the data that was already imported, since they were exact matches.

Drive Bender imported and duplicated every file with a 1 after the file name. While it would have been nice to be able to choose if you wanted to overwrite, duplicate, or not merge the data, Drive Bender did not delete any data. You have to select the pool in which you want to perform a task, shutdown the Dashboard and restart it. Below are two images that show hard drives unmounted and mounted:. While Drive Bender does a good job for providing various options for managing your Drive Pools in the way you choose, it also has added an extra level of complexity for the average WHS user.

Most of the WHS users would prefer a more minimalist presentation. Hopefully Drive Bender will continue to build on this for future versions. I guess you could say I'm Home Tech Enthusiast. I'm a little different than most of the people who probably visit the website.