File Placement Limit

[Bcbear]

I understand the need for this feature on company servers and such but is there a way to turn it off? I use it for home and I have two hdds with one bad sector each.  The SMART scanning doesn't show any imminent danger and I would like to put the drives back in the Drivepool.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[B00ze]

What if you disable the Scanner Balancer plugin?

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Bad sectors or damaged sectors? 

If it's damaged sectors, then you're already in "imminent danger". A read should NEVER fail on the drive, unless "Something Bad Has Happened" already.  Modern drives do a whole bunch of things to make sure that they can read from the drive. And if that's failed .... 

If the drive is under warranty, RMA it.  If not .... I wouldn't recommend it for usage in general.

 

That said, turning off the StableBit Scanner balancer would disable that behavior.