tesla1886 3 Posted January 28 Posted January 28 I finally go to install my 22 TB HD today. I formatted it and assigned it drive letter "Y" and named it DVD's-01. I assigned my 10 TB drive drive letter "Z" DVD's-02. The 10 TB was dive "V" and contained (and still does) all my previous video files. I installed StableBit, which is currently in the 30 day trail period, and created a drive pool and assigned the drive "V" and named it DVD's Pool. Drives "Y" and "Z" are included in the pool. "V" is the drive Emby monitors. In Windows Explorer under "This PC" the drive shows that it contains data. However, when opening the drive to explorer it, it says that "This folder is empty". After installing StableBit I rebooted the PC. What if anything did I do wrong and / or what else if anything do I need to do? Thank You
Mahinepua 81 Posted January 28 Posted January 28 (edited) Go back to the drives you added and move the media into the drivepool directory, it will be a bunch of random characters, then they will show up in the pool. Should look like this PoolPart.326a76ad-6884-4262-bc6d-c073dc69d43d The directory is created on your actual drives when you make a pool. Edited January 28 by Mahinepua 1
tesla1886 3 Posted January 28 Author Posted January 28 2 minutes ago, Mahinepua said: Go back to the drives you added and move the media into the drivepool directory, it will be a punch of random characters, then they will show up in the pool Copying files now, currently going to take about 17 hours. When complete should I delete the original files? IE after copy files from "Z" to "V" should I delete the original files from Z?
calbanese 1 Posted January 29 Posted January 29 I use StableBit and after its setup, all you will use is your new drive V:. Don't put anything else on the other drives once everything is in V. At that point, delete the files from those other drives that you manually put there. StableBit will create hidden folders with your files in them. If you turn on "Show Hidden files" you will see the PoolPart hidden folder that has your data in it.
Mahinepua 81 Posted January 29 Posted January 29 9 minutes ago, tesla1886 said: Copying files now, currently going to take about 17 hours. When complete should I delete the original files? IE after copy files from "Z" to "V" should I delete the original files from Z? Moving should be instant, you are moving from one directory to another on the same drive not copying them. 1
tesla1886 3 Posted January 29 Author Posted January 29 (edited) deleted Edited January 29 by tesla1886 deleted
tesla1886 3 Posted January 29 Author Posted January 29 9 minutes ago, Mahinepua said: Moving should be instant, you are moving from one directory to another on the same drive not copying them. Just reread your last post. Somehow skipped over the word "directory". 12 minutes ago, Mahinepua said: Moving should be instant, you are moving from one directory to another on the same drive not copying them. Done. Everything is back in Emby. Thank You.
tesla1886 3 Posted January 29 Author Posted January 29 @Mahinepua Can go into Disk Management and remove the drive letters for "Y" and "Z"?
Mahinepua 81 Posted January 29 Posted January 29 You should be able to rename them whatever you want, I wouidnt change the logical drive assignment as they will probably drop off the pool. 1
calbanese 1 Posted January 29 Posted January 29 19 minutes ago, tesla1886 said: @Mahinepua Can go into Disk Management and remove the drive letters for "Y" and "Z"? You can rename your drive but not the Drive letter assignments. StableBit uses your existing drive letters. I mean you could, but you would have to reconnect it to the pool 1
tesla1886 3 Posted January 29 Author Posted January 29 I have another question. I have StableBit set to balance the drives at 3 AM. When this ran this morning it created the following directories on the 22 TB drive (Drive "Y") when moving files from the 10 TB (Drive "Z"). PoolPart.x DVDs DVDs Movies TV Movies TV It is like this on the Drive Pool drive (drive "V") as well. Both Movies and TV folders appear to have different Movies or TV shows in them. This isn't what I want. What I want is a single DVD's folder containing a single Movies folder and a single TV folder, IE DVDs Movies TV This is the way it is on the 10 TB Drive (Drive "Z"). Will this eventually straighten its self out or do I need to do some to stop this?
Thidsa 44 Posted January 30 Posted January 30 (edited) Go in disk management and remove drive letters for drive Y and Z. Drivepool will not loose them. You are just confusing yourself by looking at all the drives at the same time. You can keep the name for reference when/if you get more disks. Only focus on drive V after that. Edited January 30 by Thidsa
tesla1886 3 Posted January 31 Author Posted January 31 On 1/29/2026 at 9:52 PM, Thidsa said: Go in disk management and remove drive letters for drive Y and Z. Drivepool will not loose them. You are just confusing yourself by looking at all the drives at the same time. You can keep the name for reference when/if you get more disks. Only focus on drive V after that. On 1/29/2026 at 6:26 PM, tesla1886 said: When this ran this morning it created the following directories on the 22 TB drive (Drive "Y") when moving files from the 10 TB (Drive "Z"). PoolPart.x DVDs DVDs Movies TV Movies TV It is like this on the Drive Pool drive (drive "V") as well. Minus the PoolPart.x Drive v has the same exact directory structure as Y:
Teddyknuddel 136 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 On 1/28/2026 at 11:10 PM, Luke said: Hi, @ebr, @Teddyknuddel may have some tips on this. I'm a "beginner" myself when it comes to DrivePool – but first things first: it only really takes off when you have a good SSD integrated. Otherwise, this user here should be very knowledgeable: @rbjtech 1
Thidsa 44 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 (edited) On 1/30/2026 at 12:26 AM, tesla1886 said: This isn't what I want. What I want is a single DVD's folder containing a single Movies folder and a single TV folder, IE DVDs Movies TV This is what you get on drive V. I don't know what you think is wrong in your setup...cant see anything Drive V is a virtual drive and is the sum of all drives added to the pool in stablebit drivepool. Files will be scattered around the drives with some here and some there depending on what you have selected in Drivepool ex.how the files should be duplicated or not. So now you have 2 drives added and with no duplication, about half will be on one drive and the other half on the other drive, and all files will be on V. With 2x duplication all files will be on all drives when you only have 2 disks. Remember, drive V is only the place where Drivepool will present your files as they should be seen. How the are seen/listed on the other disks (for you Z and Y) does not matter much as long as all files are seen on V. I dont have driveletters on my pooled drives(looks much cleaner), since I dont look at the other drives unless there is some trouble and it seldom is. Hasn'nt been much trouble to blame on Drivepool after my 14 years of using it. Edited January 31 by Thidsa 1
C.S. 93 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 On 1/29/2026 at 4:26 PM, tesla1886 said: When this ran this morning it created the following directories on the 22 TB drive (Drive "Y") when moving files from the 10 TB (Drive "Z"). PoolPart.x DVDs DVDs Movies TV Movies TV It is like this on the Drive Pool drive (drive "V") as well. Both Movies and TV folders appear to have different Movies or TV shows in them. From the V drive you can just move the extra Movies and TV folders into the top DVDs folder and then delete the extra DVDs folder. Then stop looking at your drives individually if you want to relax and be happy with drivepool. 1
Thidsa 44 Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Didn't notice he had 2 DVDs under each other. Must be a self created move/copy error
tesla1886 3 Posted February 1 Author Posted February 1 8 hours ago, C.S. said: From the V drive you can just move the extra Movies and TV folders into the top DVDs folder and then delete the extra DVDs folder. Then stop looking at your drives individually if you want to relax and be happy with drivepool. Thank You. That is what I thought, but did not want to do that with out being sure. Hopefully I won't have any more trouble. I have 2 more complete series and one more movie on the way so I will find out soon. Only reason I looked at the other drives was because "V" wasn't the way I wanted it.
rbjtech 5284 Posted February 1 Posted February 1 Difficult to know what's required vs what's configured. Drivepool default config is to balance across every disk in the pool equally BUT if you have started adding balancers (SSD Optimizer etc - which you should) then it's important you use the setting below - otherwise the scheduling of these balancers gets overwritten by the default one - probably not what you want. The other important thing to realise, is just because you have added a disk to the pool, it does not mean it is dedicated (it is a file based hidden structure as explained above). So you can continue to add normal files to it if you wish. It's a powerful (and imo reliable) piece of pooling software, but fully understanding what it's doing is sometimes not obvious. 1 1
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