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Present Config
I have the following: pool 'D' which contains physical drives {U:18tb V:18tb W:18tb X:8tb Y:8tb}

Wanted Config
I wish to balance pool 'D' with {U,V,W} at a 50% balancing ratio and {X,Y} at a 90% balancing ratio.
I do not want to separate the 5 physical drives of pool 'D' into 2 different pools of drives... such as pool 'D' containing {U,V,W} and adding another new pool 'E' containing {X,Y} (however if I did the balancing is obviously easy, but I will have to reset program drive pointers on different machines throughout my home office)

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Is this possible under the default program? If not is there a plugin to do this?

 

All help is appreciated, thank you!

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Hi Mesonto, it's not possible within a single pool.

If the requirement is just to avoid having to change shares on the LAN you could consider using nested pools (e.g. E and F supporting D)?

Issues to consider would be 1, as the drives are already in use for D it would involve either a lot of background time adding/removing drives or some delicate manual work migrating/reseeding the pool structures, and 2, if you have any exceedingly deep path lengths (over 32 thousand characters!) in your existing pool you may not be able to nest it.

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Thank you Shane! I appreciate the quick answer. It sounds as if I will be reworking my server structure then. Maybe it is about time. Either this or I will be turning off my balancing temporarily.

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