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Hi. I have drivepool all setup & its working just fine, But have 1 question... I would like to know if using some of the free space on 1 HDD outside of the pool is safe & ok to do? I have 4 drives in my pool. 2 8TB's, 10TB & 20TB. I use torrent & usenet clients from time to time, & these sometimes download loads of small files at a time, & I really don't want these smaller files being downloaded to multiple drives at once in case of file corruption. Right now I have both the torrent & usenet client set to download to 1 of the 8TB drives to a folder I made outside of the pool, So that all read & writes are done to the same drive & not scattered all over multiple drives. Is this ok to do? I'm trying to avoid file corruption & pinging all drives at once using torrent & usenet clients, But I also don't want to cause any issue with my pool either 😂 Thanks.

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Hi, I have drivepool all setup & is working just fine as is, Really pleased with it Thank you!!. The 4 drives I have added to the pool already had files on them, So once I had moved the files I had on the drive initially to the pool, Then deleted the original source files outside of the pool, The drive were unevenly balanced. So I have downloaded the Disk Space Equalizer plugin to fix that, Its at 86% so far. My question is, Once it has reached 100% & finished, Should I disable (Uncheck the plugin) the plugin? Or just leave it enabled? Dont want to mess anything up once my files have been added to the pool :/ I only ask because, Once the drives have been balanced, Drivepool will balance the drives automatically when new files are added. My use case for drivepool is a simple pool/JBOD, I've installed it with all default settings (Disabled Bitlocker_PoolPartUnlockDetect so that drives can sleep) & Disk Space Equalizer plugin (Just in case you were wondering). Simple. Thanks!!