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Thanks guys, I’ll uninstall FCP and feed back cheers adrian

I’ve done that but it’s reporting no errors?

Here’s the diagnostics. mediaserver1-diagnostics-20180109-1058.zip

Ok, will do, not had to post before so I’m new to this. Cheers adrian

Hi ive just upgraded (via a clean install) one of my servers from unRaid 5 to unRaid 6 and the first thing I’ve noticed is that the time it takes to boot and start the array probably 2-3 times what it used to take on v5? I’m running it on a HP micro server n54l with 8gb of ram and a 5-disk array with no parity drive (yet). Any clues why why the performance is so much slower on the new version as this has killed my Kodi system (which auto-starts the required server when you select a movie etc). Now it just times-out and eventually decides that the file must no longer be available. Any my help would be great. Thanks Adrian

Thanks itimpi Well it sounds like, once the high-water method kicks in, that it'll do what I'm after. I'm currently copying files over to my share and my 4tb drive has only 1.08tb free, when this reaches 1tb (or there abouts depending on the size of the file being written at the time) I expect the high-water method to swap writing to my 2tb drive, for the next 1tb, then swap back (at which point I'll have added another 3tb drive into the mix, which should start receiving the next batch of writes - hopefully). I think I'm getting there, but I'll learn by watching the results I expect. I'll let you know how I get on, but thanks so much for your input so far. Cheers Update: Yep, it's creating the sub folders on disk2 as we speak and doing exactly as I wanted it to. Brilliant, thanks for guiding me through it itimpi, hope I can return the favour one day, though I seriously doubt it

Thanks itimpi So it sounds like split level 3 is correct for the structure I'm after. I did manaully create the first structure on the 4tb drive to begin with i.e. Media Movies Action Sci-Fi TV Shows But I then proceeded, via the user share (over a windows network) to copy files into those folders, rather than copy that whole structure across to the unRaid share. Should I simply be copying file/folders manually into the individual disks on the share or should unRaid sort this out for me i.e. once it reaches the high-water threshold for the first disk, it'll then create the media>movies>sci-fi structure on the next disk and begin placing files/folders inside it? I've now removed all included/excluded disk settings too, so all array disks should be in the share. Cheers

Hi itimpi Thanks for your fast, and very detailed response. Perhaps if I explain what I'm hoping to achieve, you can say what settings I need? Basically I want one main share called MEDIA, this will span (and exist on) all array drives. Inside Media I want 'MOVIES' and 'TV SHOWS' folders, these should span (and exist on) all array drives. Inside 'MOVIES' I want genre folders, say 'ACTION', 'SCI-FI' which should span (and exist on) all drives (TV SHOWS would have series sub folders at this level, say 'FRIENDS', which span and exist on all array drives). Then, finally, inside each movie genre folder or tv series folder, there would be individual folders containing each movie (or tv season). I want each movie folder to exist on a single drive, but if there are hundreds of movie folders at the 'SCI-FI' genre level, then some movie folders might exist on one drive and some on another as the available space become exceeded and the high-water allocation kicks in. Hence my split level of 3, I thought, based on my reading, that this would create MEDIA folders on all arrays drives, within this it would create MOVIES and TV SHOWS folders on all array drives, within these folders would be created the genre folders etc (on all array drives) and only after this level would there be individual movie folder, containing the files for one movie, kept together on the drive it was first written to, determined by the space available at the time of writing. Am I way off the mark here or is this achievable? Cheers

Hi My first unRaid build (Microserver N54L) and I'm puzzled by a user share issue. I have the drives and settings as described below (parity disabled at the moment, for file-copying, though it's made no difference to copy-speed). Parity: 4tb WD red (disabled) disk1: 4tb WD red disk2: 2tb WD Green flash: 16gb User Share: Name: Media Allocation Method: High-Water Min. Free Space: 0 Split Level: 3 Included Disks: disk1,disk2 Excluded Disks: flash Share Empty: No SMB Security Settings: Export: Yes Security: Public My issue is as follows: I'm copying files from my old server across, into the user share 'Media' and so far it's simply filling up the 4tb drive, to the point where there's less than 50% left now. I thought the High-Water method would get to 50% on disk1 (so, once it exceeds 2tb) and switch to writing to disk2, until that is lower than 50% (1tb), then switch back to dsk1 again etc. However, so far there hasn't been a single file written to disk2?? I know I've missed something, just don't know what it is? Any ideas. Cheers