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Yes; it is not an exclusive operating system, it is simply an application that runs as a service on Windows. It is a one-off cost, I think. They probably have a "try before you buy" offer, that gives you 28 days use before you have to buy a licence or uninstall it. I tried that early last year, but at that time they had some problems with font sizes, resulting in some of the text on their panels being truncated. (In all fairness, I should point out that "MP Config" and "TV Server Config" have precisely the same problem -- they don't allow for the possibility that the user might be using a larger font; I stopped doing that when I decided to move permanently from WMC to MP. )The beauty of a drive pool is that the individual drives in the pool are simple NTFS disks that store files; there is no striping or spanning a file across multiple disks. So there is no performance increase for single files, although I believe that if you have file duplication enabled, and the disks in the pool are homogeneous (i.e. all the same speed), Stablebit will read simultaneously from both copies of the file to improve read speed.The protection offered is by the user selecting file duplication, which causes the pool to store multiple copies of each file (typically two copies of each file, but you can choose more). Stablebit knows that it should store the copies on separate physical disks, so if one disk fails, the other copy of the file is available. After you have replaced the failing disk, Stablebit will re-duplicate all of the files that were on the failing disk.Is this practical for terabytes of data? How long would it take to upload? Months? Would you be in danger of exceeding your monthly limit? (Last month I got an early-warning email from my ISP that I was nearing my 10GB monthly limit. )-- from CyberSimian in the UK
Yes; it is not an exclusive operating system, it is simply an application that runs as a service on Windows.
It is a one-off cost, I think. They probably have a "try before you buy" offer, that gives you 28 days use before you have to buy a licence or uninstall it. I tried that early last year, but at that time they had some problems with font sizes, resulting in some of the text on their panels being truncated. (In all fairness, I should point out that "MP Config" and "TV Server Config" have precisely the same problem -- they don't allow for the possibility that the user might be using a larger font; I stopped doing that when I decided to move permanently from WMC to MP. )
The beauty of a drive pool is that the individual drives in the pool are simple NTFS disks that store files; there is no striping or spanning a file across multiple disks. So there is no performance increase for single files, although I believe that if you have file duplication enabled, and the disks in the pool are homogeneous (i.e. all the same speed), Stablebit will read simultaneously from both copies of the file to improve read speed.
The protection offered is by the user selecting file duplication, which causes the pool to store multiple copies of each file (typically two copies of each file, but you can choose more). Stablebit knows that it should store the copies on separate physical disks, so if one disk fails, the other copy of the file is available. After you have replaced the failing disk, Stablebit will re-duplicate all of the files that were on the failing disk.
Is this practical for terabytes of data? How long would it take to upload? Months? Would you be in danger of exceeding your monthly limit? (Last month I got an early-warning email from my ISP that I was nearing my 10GB monthly limit. )
-- from CyberSimian in the UK
