Under the Balancing options of a Pool, on the first Settings tab there is a section for Automatic Balancing.
What happens if I select "Do not balance automatically"? When would the drives be balanced again?
My main concern is Duplicated folders: when are the files duplicated if Automatic Balancing is disabled?
I understand how the balancers work and how I can trigger this with other events.
^- TL;DR;
I would like to limit the accessing of my disk as much as possible.
I have:
Changed Scanner to scan only twice a week (Mon and Thurs mornings).
This is the ONLY regularly scheduled software that wakes up the drives.
I have setup Plex Media Server to never scan (just monitors disk activity).
I have nothing else installed, and nothing else constantly accessing the disks.
But, I notice the drives are still spun up in the early morning - every morning. I found where i have DrivePool configured to for Automatic balancing every day at 5 AM.
I am suspecting this is spinning up the drives at 5 AM?
Thanks!
-E
PS, I love the ability to write my own balancer plugins in .NET. I just haven't needed to with the great balances already available (and maybe 1 or 2 I added a long time ago). Thank you!
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Under the Balancing options of a Pool, on the first Settings tab there is a section for Automatic Balancing.
What happens if I select "Do not balance automatically"? When would the drives be balanced again?
My main concern is Duplicated folders: when are the files duplicated if Automatic Balancing is disabled?
I understand how the balancers work and how I can trigger this with other events.
^- TL;DR;
I would like to limit the accessing of my disk as much as possible.
I have:
But, I notice the drives are still spun up in the early morning - every morning. I found where i have DrivePool configured to for Automatic balancing every day at 5 AM.
I am suspecting this is spinning up the drives at 5 AM?
Thanks!
-E
PS, I love the ability to write my own balancer plugins in .NET. I just haven't needed to with the great balances already available (and maybe 1 or 2 I added a long time ago). Thank you!
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