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Hi folks, thanks for the replies.
Firstly, I'll say, I'm a relative newbie to unRAID so I'm open to suggestions.
The following is my rationale for using "most free". I have drives varying from 8TB down to 5TB, 4TB and 3TB. The 8TB drives were new at the time the NAS was built. The other drives had been used in other PCs, some Linux, some Windows. I wanted to make sure that the 8TB drives were used first but then once 3TB had been stored on each of them, to start to store data spread equally between the 8TBs and the 5TB. Then when another 1TB had been stored on all drives to store data across the 8, 5 and 4TBs and so on. Don't know if that makes sense.
In all shares only the top directory is split - so, for photos the top directory is the year directory for each year 2010, 2011, 2012 etc, then udnerneath that, folders by date, then the individual photos. For TV programmes this folder is the programme name, underneath this are series/season folders, then individual programmes themselves. *
When I'm adding files to the NAS, it could be anything from radio programmes, tv programme, films, photos, downloaded utilities, etc.
My understanding is that my system keeps series together, individual years for photos together, etc.
Unless my logic is wrong?
As regards moving the files around, I put forward Krusader and I've had suggestions for Midnight Commander and unBalance. Wondering what are the relative merits and otherwise of these options. As I said, I'm a relative newbie so I have a lot to learn!
Thanks
Alan
* PS I am finding that as I am adding items, my system is telling me that the drives are full for that share.
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@jonathanm I think you've misunderstood my intentions.
Replacing the drive will give me around 5TB extra storage in the array. When I replace the old 3TB drive (which has approx. 2TB used and 1TB free) and rebuild, the new 8TB drive will have 2TB used and 6TB free space.
The idea of the rebalance is to soak up some of the new spare capacity with data from the other drives. The allocation method on the shares is "most-free" so, assuming I can spread the data around evenly, then I should end up with around 14TB spare capacity spread across the 8 data drives (compared to the current 9TB free). In that scenario, each drive would have around 1.75TB free compared to the current 1.1TB.
So, what's the best of doing this?
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I have an existing NAS array consisting of 8 drives plus parity drive. Three of the data drives and the parity drive are 8TB, the others are a mix (2 x 3TB, 2 x 4TB and 1 x 5TB). 34TB of the 43 TB in the array is used and only 9TB free. Most of the drives have only around 1TB free. Until now I've not been able to afford to expand the drives but over the weekend I plan to replace one of the 3TB drives with a new 8TB. This will give me approximately an additional 5TB storage. (Hopefully in the next few months I plan on another similar HDD upgrade from 3TB to 8TB).
The shares are arranged so that only the top level directory is split and I want to keep it that way. What I need to do is to balance the drives better by redistributing the data and I'm wondering what would be the best way of doing it. I am considering using Krusader, but would welcome recommendations.
Thanks
Alan
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Thank you to both, especially jonathanm for the cache answer (I'd misread the manual!) and to johnnie.black for explaining split levels very concisely - for the first time, I understand what I'm doing in this regard!
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Hi
My system consists of 4HDDs (8TB each), of which one is parity and the other three are data drives. I also have a cache pool consisting of two SSD cache drives (500GB each).
At this stage I have set up 4 User shares:
AppDownloads - contains installation files for applications on my PCs with individual folders for each PC (eg PC1, PC2, PC3) and then in each of those folders, a subfolder for the Application concerned. I want to make sure that all Apps for a particular PC are in one drive.
Films – a folder for each film, again I want to make sure that all files relating to a particular film reside on one drive.
Photos – a folder for each year (eg 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017) with subfolders within each year folder by date of shooting. Each specific year folder is to reside on one drive.
TV – a folder for each programme name with subfolders for seasons (where appropriate), again all files for each specific programme name are to reside on one drive.
I'm having difficulty getting my head around "split levels", especially as the terminology in the v6 Manual and what is actually in the Shares setup page is different (the former refers to levels 1, 2, 3, etc whereas the Shares setup has phrases like “automatically split only the top level directory as required”). Can someone clarify for me what my settings should be, please?
Secondly, I want to use the cache disks to hold the data initially before transferring to the appropriate share (providing there is enough space on the cache pool), so presumably “prefer” is the recommended option. I’ve seen a number of unRAID videos over the last few weeks and recall there was one which went through the various settings for dockers and data but can’t find the video concerned.
Any help would be appreciated.
Many thanks
Alan
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You're a star, Squid, problem sorted! Thank you very much!
Alan
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Hi Squid
Not sure if I've done this right as this is a whole new learning curve for me.
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Thanks for the reply Squid, but in this case it is! :-(
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Hi I'm trying to install the Community Applications plug-in but having problems. I get this message:
plugin: installing: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Squidly271/community.applications/master/plugins/community.applications.plg
plugin: downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Squidly271/community.applications/master/plugins/community.applications.plg
plugin: downloading: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Squidly271/community.applications/master/plugins/community.applications.plg ... failed (Network failure)
plugin: wget: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Squidly271/community.applications/master/plugins/community.applications.plg download failure (Network failure)Forgive me, as a newbie to unRAID, I don't know what information you may need. If you let me know and tell me how to get the information, I'll gt back to you.
Many thanks.
Alan
(unRAID 6.4.0) Redistributing data
in General Support
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Apologies for the delay in responding. The upgrading of the 3TB drive to 8TB and consequential data rebuild was delayed, but has now been completed.
Many thanks for the various responses, as a newbie to unRAID, they're very much appreciated and hopefully, I'll start to ponder on the comments over the coming week to decide on a course of action.
Alan