I'm in the process of dismantling the drivepool back into individual drives for now. So as for windows, and the state of file storage, it seems individual drives or storage spaces is the way to go. Unraid seems interesting and I may run unraid on my 3rd file server as an experiment but I tend to be more familiar with the workings of windows than linux these days. I'm a windows user so linux is not something I'm ready for just yet. Windows knows how to work with them well, without the extra drivepool proxy file system in the way and data is organized and should I lose a drive, I know exactly what was on that drive and can restore the drive where as with Drivepool I really would have to do a lot of manual work to figure out which files were lost, since drivepool scatters files around. So I'm left wondering, perhaps individual drives are better. I like drivepool since its nice to see everything in one folder structure but drivepool seems reckless and dangerous if you're not using its duplication features, and I wasnt due to space and the extra cost. The folder's contents get deleted on the share, but for some reason it leaves an empty folder behind. I always have to go back and delete the empty folder, after having deleted it already. I also dont like how drivepool seems to have issues with deleting folders that are accessed recently. I'm more concerned with restoring the missing files that Drivepool leaves scattered randomly around the various drives, should one of them fail. I also have local back ups of the most important data. I back up my stuff on crashplan pro so I'm covered when it comes to backups. It seems like Storage spaces is the way to go for windows users not seeking hardware raid. Snapraid is something I'm considering but Drivepool+snapraid seems like a less than ideal bandaid that may work but the two programs arent really made to work together. This makes it very hard to restore a drive or the missing files. I just don't like the way files get scattered around to the various drives. I like Drivepool but there are things i simply don't like about it. Either storage spaces, or just going back to individual drives. After having used Drivepool for sometime, I've been wrestling with perhaps finding something better.
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