Pete Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 Hi, i have 5 drives in my pool and i want to keep certain data on certain drives. i've disabled balancing but drivepool is constantly trying to balance data. is there anywhere else i need to turn it off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pete Posted February 7, 2014 Author Share Posted February 7, 2014 just some more info, i have my folders setup like HDD1 > Movies > A > A Team > ateam.mkv for some reason its balancing by creating thumbs.db on HDD2, HDD3 etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted February 8, 2014 Share Posted February 8, 2014 Go to the Balancer settings. Set "Balancing" to "Never". There isn't a good way currently to control file placement. The other option is the "Ordered File Placement" balancer Plugin, that fills one disk at a time. https://stablebit.com/DrivePool/Plugins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pete Posted February 8, 2014 Author Share Posted February 8, 2014 thanks i will give it a go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 HansWursT619 Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 Does this mean i have no way to keep all my movies on a single physical hard drive? I would like to keep as few drives spinning as possible. So it would be nice to have something that enforces a Folder to stay on one physical drive, if it is not bigger than that drive of course. My problem with "Ordered File Placement", is that i dont want to fill up one drive before using the others^^ I just want to keep related files together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted February 16, 2014 Share Posted February 16, 2014 If you guys are using the "ordered file placement" balancer, please update to the newest version: https://stablebit.com/DrivePool/Plugins @HansWursT619: Unfortunately, the only way to do that currently is the Ordered File Placement balancer. Alex has plans on allowing finer control (control file placement), but it is going to require an overhaul of the balancing system, IIRC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hi, i have 5 drives in my pool and i want to keep certain data on certain drives. i've disabled balancing but drivepool is constantly trying to balance data.
is there anywhere else i need to turn it off
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