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  1. On 12/7/2022 at 6:24 AM, Mesonto said:

    Cam,

    I had the same issue with drive balancing as I removed a single 8TB Red Nas and inserted an 18TB Red Nas drive in its place for increased storage and the drive balancing was plodding along at about 25MB/s. (value taken from StableBIt Drive Scanner) At this rate it will take longer than a week in my 5 drive StableBit DrivePool. My drives are fast than this, much faster.

    So what I decided to do was:

    1. hit the dobble arrows to the right of the balancing portion of the screen (at the very bottom)image.png.e52206a33ca38f5b590e75f971635157.png 
    2. removed all background applications i.e Plex etc., from running
    3. removed all background processes not necessary for the balancing to occur
    4. checked the throughput on Drive Scanner then closed it too 

    My Results:

    My balancing is now humming along between 180MB/s and 210MB/s. (value taken from StableBIt Drive Scanner) And now maybe sometime this evening it will be finished.

    Hopefully this helps someone as it helped me.

    Yea I have smashed the "FF arrow" button over 100x... and closed all other programs... still no change

  2. I'm running a Plex server currently with 8 HDDs in 2x4 bay boxes. I have some hard drives allocated to TV, and others allocated to Films.

    I'd like to have files written to the drives in consecutive writes to reduce fragmentation and to begin filling drives one after the other. What's the best way to do this?

    Just bought a new 18TB drive to add to the Films pool. I'd like to start by filling it up with content currently in the pool, and then begin to fill up the next highest capacity drive, and so on.

    How can I optimize this going forward?

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  3. I am trying to balance 6 drives in a single media pool as follows:

    2 - Many Folders with small files
    3-4 - TV folder
    5-7 - Films folder

    I want the TV folder and the Films folder to balance by filling up each drive and then moving to the next drive. Ex. fill up drive 4, then start filling drive 5. When drive 5 is filled then move to drive 6. I also want to leave ~200GB free on each drive

    It seems to sort of work but as you can see from the screenshots it isn't working optimally. The drives do not fill up to the blue arrow. The blue arrows are all over the place on drives 5-7 with drive 5 being overfilled and drive 6 being underfilled. Running "rebalance" doesn't solve this.

    Any ideas on how to fix this?

     

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  4. Is there a way to have TV shows all copied to (say 3 drives) but written and balanced continuously in sequential order so they are not spread over multiple drives.
    And then have all films copied to different drives (say 5 drives) but also written and balanced in sequential order?

     

    I understand the "ordered file placement" plugin, but I dont see how to use that with different folders of content

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