Can I force all new files to a certain drive?

[ochompsky]

For my use case, I don't need duplication or balancing.  I want to manually monitor/manage space.  The main reason im interested in this software is to have ~13 drives combined into a single logical one for sharing.  

 

To accomplish this, I was thinking of doing the following: 

 

1.  Disable all balancing plugins

2.  Create a file placement rule that says all files (*) should go to drive x in the pool.  

 

Would the above work without interfering with regular files?  I want to strictly make sure it would only apply to newly added files.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

You could use the SSD Optimizer balancer plugin.  It basically does this, actually.  
And no, the drives don't have to be "SSDs". But that's the usual use case. 

https://stablebit.com/DrivePool/Plugins

[ochompsky]

On 12/17/2018 at 8:57 PM, Christopher (Drashna) said:

https://stablebit.com/DrivePool/Plugins

What about ordered file placement plugin?  There seems to be several ways to do this I just really am worried about all of my existing files getting messed up.  

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Yes, that should work, as well. Depending on what exactly you want.