Drivepool Best Practices

[Dizzy]

I recently lost 5 drives in two weeks, so I am reevaluating my system and settings.

From newest to oldest I have:
4x 18TB Seagate Exos
2x 16TB Seagate Exos
3x WD Gold
3x WD Red

I also have two SSDs (OS and Torrent Landing), and two NVMe Drives.  One I use for PrimoCache on the DrivePool drive, and the other I have 128GB for SSD Optimization

I have all my drives named, and the bay listed in Scanner.  I have them all mounted to "C:\DrivePool\Bay##"

I have Read Striping and Real-Time Duplication checked under Performance.

I have the following Balancers Enabled:

SSD Optimizer - Left everything default but marked which drive was the SSD
Stablebit Scanner - Move (duplicated and un-duplicated) files out of damaged drives; Never allow file placement on evacuated drives.
Volume Equalization

I have our personal files (documents, pics, etc) duplicated.

Are there other things/settings that would be good to use?

[Christopher (Drashna)]

First, I'm sorry to hear about your drive failures, as that is never a pleasant experience!

For the settings, I personally like having the StableBit Scanner balancer move out unduplicated data for SMART warnings too.  

I also have the rescan option to 14 days instead of 30.  

Otherwise, that ll looks good.