diff --git a/config/clusters/2i2c-aws-us/basehub-common.values.yaml b/config/clusters/2i2c-aws-us/basehub-common.values.yaml
index acdc2fa1ff..6f77d1efd6 100644
--- a/config/clusters/2i2c-aws-us/basehub-common.values.yaml
+++ b/config/clusters/2i2c-aws-us/basehub-common.values.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 nfs:
   enabled: true
+  volumeReporter:
+    enabled: false
   pv:
     enabled: true
     # from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/mounting-fs-nfs-mount-settings.html
diff --git a/config/clusters/2i2c-aws-us/daskhub-common.values.yaml b/config/clusters/2i2c-aws-us/daskhub-common.values.yaml
index 235875165e..082ff4c2d2 100644
--- a/config/clusters/2i2c-aws-us/daskhub-common.values.yaml
+++ b/config/clusters/2i2c-aws-us/daskhub-common.values.yaml
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 basehub:
   nfs:
     enabled: true
+    volumeReporter:
+      enabled: false
     pv:
       enabled: true
       # from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/mounting-fs-nfs-mount-settings.html
diff --git a/config/clusters/catalystproject-africa/common.values.yaml b/config/clusters/catalystproject-africa/common.values.yaml
index c01425d31f..c4456c64ef 100644
--- a/config/clusters/catalystproject-africa/common.values.yaml
+++ b/config/clusters/catalystproject-africa/common.values.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 nfs:
   enabled: true
+  # volumeReporter will report 100% for all hubs as EFS is unbounded, we disable
+  # it to save a limited amount of pods we can allocate per core node
+  volumeReporter:
+    enabled: false
   pv:
     enabled: true
     # from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/efs/latest/ug/mounting-fs-nfs-mount-settings.html