Abstract: A method for managing data packing in a storage includes: receiving data from a computing device at a first point-in-time; analyzing the data to: determine characteristics of the data, and generate an extent for the data, in which the extent includes sequential tracks; analyzing sequential tracks to infer how a distribution of compression sizes change for the sequential tracks to obtain track-level in the compression sizes; forecasting, based on the characteristics of the data and the track-level changes in the compression sizes, a stability score of the distribution at a second point-in-time, in which the second point-in-time is after the first point-in-time; making a determination, based on the stability score, that the distribution would be the same in the second point-in-time; and placing, based on the determination, the tracks to a first zone in the storage, in which the storage further comprises a second zone and a third zone.