The_Saver Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 Hello everyone, I was wondering if it is possible to do the following. The pool has a couple of SSD's and HDD's with varying sizes. The SSD's will be used to speed up the DrivePool, and the HDD's for capacity. Whenever a new file is written to the pool it will be put on the SSD with the lowest % of its total capacity used. After it has transferred, the file will be moved from the SSD to an HDD with the lowest % of its total capacity used. Is it possible and how do I set it up? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Umfriend Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 The Disk Space Equalizer plug-in comes to mind. https://stablebit.com/DrivePool/Plugins Christopher (Drashna) and The_Saver 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 The_Saver Posted August 5, 2018 Author Share Posted August 5, 2018 34 minutes ago, Umfriend said: The Disk Space Equalizer plug-in comes to mind. https://stablebit.com/DrivePool/Plugins Thank you for your reply. I have tried using the plugin and setting the % option. I also have the SSD Optimiser plugin for setting the drives as SSD/Archive. However, it still just uses absolute number. Isn't that odd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Umfriend Posted August 5, 2018 Share Posted August 5, 2018 It may have to do to with other balancers. If you have Volume Equalization and Duplication Space Optimizers active, they may need to be de-activated _or_ you need to increase the priority of the Disk Space Equalizer plug-in such that it ranks higher than the other two (but if you have StableBit Scanner, that one should always be #1 IMHO). I have not actually used that plug-in myself though. Edit: Did you activate e-measure though? The_Saver 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 On 8/5/2018 at 5:50 AM, The_Saver said: I have tried using the plugin and setting the % option. I also have the SSD Optimiser plugin for setting the drives as SSD/Archive. However, it still just uses absolute number. Isn't that odd? You'll need to disable the SSD Optimizer balancer. Do that, and see if it works (it should) The_Saver 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 The_Saver Posted August 7, 2018 Author Share Posted August 7, 2018 Thank you for the help. I think the solution was to set the order of the plugins properly: And then also went through my settings inside the plugins and changed some things which I cannot remember now. Now I just need to rebalance the pool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Umfriend Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 That is quite a few disks! Glad it helped and you got to work it out. The_Saver 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 The_Saver Posted August 7, 2018 Author Share Posted August 7, 2018 33 minutes ago, Umfriend said: That is quite a few disks! Glad it helped and you got to work it out. What kind of disks do you have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Umfriend Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 1x128 SSD for OS, 1x8TB, 2x4TB, 2x2TB, 1x900GB. The 8TB and 1x4+1x2TB are in a hierarchical duplicated Pool, all with 2TB partitions so that WHS2011 Server Backup works. The other 4TB+2TB are in case some HDD fails. The 900GB is for trash of an further unnamed downloading client.So actually, a pretty small Server given what many users here have. The_Saver and Christopher (Drashna) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hello everyone,
I was wondering if it is possible to do the following.
The pool has a couple of SSD's and HDD's with varying sizes. The SSD's will be used to speed up the DrivePool, and the HDD's for capacity.
Whenever a new file is written to the pool it will be put on the SSD with the lowest % of its total capacity used.
After it has transferred, the file will be moved from the SSD to an HDD with the lowest % of its total capacity used.
Is it possible and how do I set it up?
Thank you
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