Healthyboy

One of my drives developed some bad sectors on its first half which is used predominantly, I resized the formatted area to the second half of the drive only and I want to add it back to the pool, so is there a way to exclude the first half from the periodic scan, so as to prevent Drivepool from removing it from the pool every time the Scanner detects the bad sectors on the first half ? I don't want to entirely disable scanning for the drive because I want to know if it starts developing bad sectors on the second half as well, I still also want Drivepool to automatically move files out of the drive if it starts developing new bad sectors on the second half, so I don't want to disable the Scanner plugin either, any ideas ?

I have two 10 TB USB external HDDs in a pool, I'm using this pool to backup my internal HDDs pool, my concern now is when I'm done backing up the data and I need to disconnect the external HDDs, I thought about disabling Windows write caching on the external HDDs so that I could just yank the cables and be done, would that be enough to ensure that no data is lost after disconnection ?

Is there a way that Drivepool would balance data in real time ? So lets say that I'm copying a huge amount of data to my pool, is there a way to force it to do realtime balancing, so that at the end of the copy, the disk usage is already evened out ? I'm already using Disk Space Equalizer, but its not realtime.