Hi All,
I've finally gotten time to finish up this app I've been working on. It basically balances all the data on your drive pool equally. Let me know if you like it!
/Edit: UPDATE ALERT:
New feature of including D: in the balancing effort has been included.
Code:
I've finally gotten time to finish up this app I've been working on. It basically balances all the data on your drive pool equally. Let me know if you like it!
/Edit: UPDATE ALERT:
New feature of including D: in the balancing effort has been included.
Code:
Code:
UPDATED NOTE:
Some people have been having trouble not getting any data to move when their D:\\ has lots of data on it. Before doing anything else, please run Drive Balancer to clear the landing zone only. To do this, choose "n" to include d:, then choose "y" to clear landing zone, and the "5" to exit. After this initial run (which can take hours), rerun Drive Balancer the with the options you want. I believe this will help the problem of no data being moved on some people's systems.
Usage Notes:
This program was designed to "even out" the data on a drive pool for WHS. The main purpose was when a person adds a drive to the pool, it doesn't necessarily start getting used for a while. While Microsoft has made changes to the usage of the Landing Zone (as in it doesn't exist anymore), some people's systems might still be in a non "evened out" state as wish to correct this. On my own system, I routinely get within 2% of perfect balancing on all pooled drives.
For a walk through of the tool running, checkout the walk_through.txt file.
Testing:
I have tested this program on my own system which consists of:
System Disk:
Areca 1210 RAID5 set consisting of (4) 250GB Seagate Drives = 20GB C: and 678GB D:
Pooled Disks:
(3) WD 1TB Green HDs
(2) Seagate 1.5TB HDs
IMPORTANT NOTE:
With some help from user "S_M_E" on SageTV forums, I am able to "restart" the Drive Extender service which is responsible for doing the actual balancing. The program detects a restart is needed if
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