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Discovered something about my HTPC case.

The far right drive bays have screw holes that line up with a 2.5" drive.

Might make this shit easier.

Another idea I have is to make use of the spare room on the motherboard tray for a 2.5" drive cage.

as ghetto as this sounds, i dont bother with putting SSDs in drive cages. I hot glue em whereever i want em in the chassis.
 
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unraid does that. It was more annoying than useful when i was messing with it. It basically copied commonly used (or recently downloaded) files to the SSD, then on a set schedule, moved them to the array. It led to files not being where i expected them to be, and the schedule being too slow even on its fastest setting, so the cache drive filled up.

Really bad implementation.
With DrivePool, it would always be in the same spot regardless of its underlying disk location...
 
drivepool does hardlinks or something?
Advanced File System
  • StableBit DrivePool features CoveFS, an optimized file system specifically designed for disk pooling.
  • It has a virtually unlimited pool size (many Petabytes).
  • It's compatible with existing applications*, and is designed to function like NTFS.
  • It's a 100% kernel mode implementation. No user mode service dependencies or any such hacks are involved. It works like a real file system.
  • Advanced features:
    • Alternate stream support and extended attributes.
    • Full NTFS security.
    • Full Windows disk caching support. Read-ahead and lazy writer caching supported along with memory mapped files.
    • Full oplock support. Oplocks improve network share performance by allowing a network client to cache files on their end.
    • File change notifications, for applications that watch directories for changed files.
    • Sparse files.
  • Completely parallelized:
    • Reads and writes to duplicated files happen in parallel.
    • An optimized fast directory listing algorithm queries all the disks at the same time and combines the results in memory to return the list of files and directories, in real-time, as they come in from all the disks.
  • Zero dependencies on any external metadata:
    • Plug in any pooled disk to any system running StableBit DrivePool and it is instantly visible on the pool.
    • No special RAID-like format, no "tombstones" and no SQL-lite databases are involved. Everything is just plain old files.
  • Always shows the actual free space on the pool**. No need to reserve imaginary free space that you can't use.
 
Did you remember the Hellman's for your AMD chip, @Valve1138 ?

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@fly Have you messed around with Stablebit CloudDrive at all?

I got a three pack of all their products for $60 and it's included. Looks interesting. I could have really important stuff synced automagically to one or more cloud storage solutions.
I started to, but there was something that I didn't like about it. Can't remember what it was since it was 1+ years ago.
 
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