I recently purchased the software (thank you!) for a few reasons but mainly because i had a bunch of movies, TV shows & music that already existed on most of my drives and didnt want to have to try and move them over to fill up a few drives to free up enough space to start a Pool using WIndows software. My set up consist of two SSD drives (256gb each), three 8TB drives (2 external 1 internal), one 5TB (external) and one 4TB (external) drive. I also have two more external 8TB hard drives I want to eventually move over to my pool but for now I have enough work to do with what I have added lol. I read the instructions on how to move the existing files I wanted in the pool to the "PullPart.xxx" folders that are hidden. When I started my project only one of the 8TB external hard drives was brand new and never used.
My question is, or my goal really, how can I optimize my pool to have all of the files be balanced across all of the drives (or just the 8TB drives if I have to) so that not 1 drive is almost full and they are all even? I am pretty new/green to all of this stuff so I fear I might mess something up... BTW I use this setup for Plex and was getting tired of moving files around several drives to free up space... Should I have just moved all of the data over to the drive pool using file manager instead of adding them into the PullPart folder? I was just trying to make the set up quicker but if I have to change something im willing to do so.
Also note that I added the SSD optimizer and Disk Space Equalizer. If I did this in error please let me know. Also let me know if there is any additional information you need on my part.
Thanks in Advance for any assistance you can give me and once again thank you so much for this great solution to my problem i had!
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I recently purchased the software (thank you!) for a few reasons but mainly because i had a bunch of movies, TV shows & music that already existed on most of my drives and didnt want to have to try and move them over to fill up a few drives to free up enough space to start a Pool using WIndows software. My set up consist of two SSD drives (256gb each), three 8TB drives (2 external 1 internal), one 5TB (external) and one 4TB (external) drive. I also have two more external 8TB hard drives I want to eventually move over to my pool but for now I have enough work to do with what I have added lol. I read the instructions on how to move the existing files I wanted in the pool to the "PullPart.xxx" folders that are hidden. When I started my project only one of the 8TB external hard drives was brand new and never used.
My question is, or my goal really, how can I optimize my pool to have all of the files be balanced across all of the drives (or just the 8TB drives if I have to) so that not 1 drive is almost full and they are all even? I am pretty new/green to all of this stuff so I fear I might mess something up... BTW I use this setup for Plex and was getting tired of moving files around several drives to free up space... Should I have just moved all of the data over to the drive pool using file manager instead of adding them into the PullPart folder? I was just trying to make the set up quicker but if I have to change something im willing to do so.
Also note that I added the SSD optimizer and Disk Space Equalizer. If I did this in error please let me know. Also let me know if there is any additional information you need on my part.
Thanks in Advance for any assistance you can give me and once again thank you so much for this great solution to my problem i had!
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