There are three options: "Equalize by the free space remaining", "Equalize by the space used", and "Equalize by the percent used".
On my PC the pool consists of five 8TB disks and three 512GB SSDs. Since all of the archive disks are of the same size, if everything was truly equalized, then I would expect all three options to do the same thing because in an equalized state the free space remaining would be the same on all disks, the space used would be the same, and the percent used would be the same. But this is clearly not how it works.
When I selected "Equalize by the free space remaining", DrivePool completely emptied one of my five drives and shuffled that data to the other four drives. Why? Since the name implies that it is balancing by the free space, it seems odd that I would end up with 8TB free space on one drive, about 3.5TB free space on three disks, and about 3TB on the final disk.
Does anyone have a description of what these options actually do? There is zero reference to this in the user guide and I posed this as well as several other questions to Support but they only answered one of the several questions that I asked.
BTW, please don't suggest that I try the community all-in-one plugin. This crashed DrivePool for me. :-)
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There are three options: "Equalize by the free space remaining", "Equalize by the space used", and "Equalize by the percent used".
On my PC the pool consists of five 8TB disks and three 512GB SSDs. Since all of the archive disks are of the same size, if everything was truly equalized, then I would expect all three options to do the same thing because in an equalized state the free space remaining would be the same on all disks, the space used would be the same, and the percent used would be the same. But this is clearly not how it works.
When I selected "Equalize by the free space remaining", DrivePool completely emptied one of my five drives and shuffled that data to the other four drives. Why? Since the name implies that it is balancing by the free space, it seems odd that I would end up with 8TB free space on one drive, about 3.5TB free space on three disks, and about 3TB on the final disk.
Does anyone have a description of what these options actually do? There is zero reference to this in the user guide and I posed this as well as several other questions to Support but they only answered one of the several questions that I asked.
BTW, please don't suggest that I try the community all-in-one plugin. This crashed DrivePool for me. :-)
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