Drive pool Balancing Speed

[Rob1]

I added 3 new 20tb wd red pros to my pool which brings it to 160tb in total, and after 3 days it's only balanced 2.94tb. At this rate it will take forever. I checked stablebit scanner and the transfer rate is 18mbps. Why is this so slow.

I've already tried clicking the arrows and noticed there was absolutely no difference in speed. Is there a setting that can be enabled or something?

And another question. Is it possible to stop the current balance if i had to. I'm afraid of it losing data or stopping mid file.

I'm open to any suggestions and I wonder if this is somehow a bottle neck in windows with drivepool causing this. Manual file transfer is around 250mbps so I know it's not the controller.

[Shane]

Hi, in the settings.json file - see https://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_2.x_Advanced_Settings - you can try setting the override value for FileBalance_BackgroundIO to False so that DrivePool doesn't use the lower background priority for balancing (similarly FileDuplication_BackgroundIO for any scheduled duplication).

You can safely stop the current balancing by pressing the 'x' button in the GUI next to the pool organization bar.

[kees]

works perfect have now top speeds like 240mb per sec