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Ok perfect thank you. That makes sense with how that is functioning. Thank you for your help!

[Balancing on initial Writes]

12 minutes ago, Christopher (Drashna) said:

StableBit DrivePool basically does this by default. 

Unfortunately, it  doesn't do different disks like that.  What it does, is that when each file is created, it checks for the disk with the most available free space, and places the new file on that disk. So, if the disks have equal free space, then it should round robin the disks, like you  want. 

Ah OK that was the behavior I was seeing then. Thank you for the info. So what do I need to disable to keep other balancing from happening but leaving the above behavior?

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Hello, I have been using DrivePool for a few years for a friend's animation machine. I am setting it up oh a project archive server. What I would like to do if possible is if I am transferring files to the Drive Pool the files balance between the different drives in the pool automatically. For example if I have 3 files I am coping to the pool 1 gets written to each of 3 disks. I will be using SnapRaid with this and don't want any balancing to happen after files are written to their respective disks. So I guess if anything I only want new files to balance between drives. What would be the best setup with the balacing setting to do this.

 

Thanks!