Yes, you have a split level of 1 for many of your shares. This will cause all of the files for that share to be stored on a SINGLE disk unless you manually create a folder with that share name on another disk. Read that section on "Split level" very carefully and use the illustration that is there to help you understand what is happening. I always have to go through it every time I get involved with dealing with it. But I tend to use .iso files for most of my video files which for the most part eliminate the necessity of keeping certain groups of files together on the same disk.
I believe I did this intentionally to avoid having too many drives spin up to access files that play after one another. I guess this causes issues as if there's no more space on the assigned drive, it can't allocate future files to that folder (thus drive). Is this correct?
Also, is this the cause of my permission issues? That seems to be something completely different, correct? You mentioned using the "Docker Safe New Permissions", are you referring to the function within tools>new permission? Once I run this, I should be free to run unBALANCE. Is the idea behind ssh'ing and running "LS -al" to find the root of the permissions (i.e. what folders/programs are causing this issue)? Thanks for the guidance and clarifications.