Johnny

Well hidden deep inside the settings I did find a local lan traffic setting which solved the problem Thank you Nuhll!, should of looked for that before but I figured it was something misconfigured on the unraid side.

Huh, strange, I mean when I access my drive normally I'm not sending out a packet to the internet, just on my own domain, but what I think happens and what really happens are two different things obviously.

I should add that we can access the drives from anywhere but the computer that is connected to the VPN fine, my HTPC still streams movies and what not but I can't get to the drives through windows any longer, they get red X's on them until I quit the vpn.

I got a VPN service (PIA) when I connect I can no longer get to my network drives until I turn off the VPN. Any clues as to why this happens? Unraid is on my side of the network not sure why the VPN would interfere? Thanks.

And the mover is actually moving to disk 2, that seems to have done it thank you!

Okay I'll make that change, just confuses me I thought the purpose of high-water was to fill each disk up equally, in my case it seems to be ignoring those 2 disks.

Oh and @doit, on your advice I have set the enable disk shares to Auto.

How it worked before, was the cache stored the file until the mover activated at night, which it's set to 340am, emptying the cache disk. I want the cache to cache for faster downloads and offload the slower parity portion of it when I'm sleeping. @doitmyselftoo No I'm seeing zero files on Disk 2 and Disk 3, Disk 1 and 4 between them have about 70 gb left. I've written lots of gb to the disks before I noticed it and it should have spread those files around (assumption). Disk 1 & 4 has file directories like Media, Music, etc, but Disk 2 & 3 are completely blank no file structure at all. @itmpi Isn't 2000000 high enough I believe that was the guide setting for 2tb but it's been a long time since I set up unraid. What should I use for split-level setting? I just applied what the guide recommended, if I recall correctly I wanted a single movie folder to not be split up among disks, but I've created many new movies since then and I assumed it would spread the wealth? Btw I can physically move files to Disks 2 and 3, they copy just fine but the mover is apparently ignoring all the disks, everything I thought I was sending to the disks for last couple months is still on the cache drive, I've manually invoked the mover and does nothing. /shrug tower-diagnostics-20180706-0901.zip

I had moved files around to make an empty disk in order to convert to xfs, which worked fine or so I thought. But weeks later I happened to notice my cache disk has 124 gig on it, and 2 of my 4 disks have no files at all, and no directory either. I would have expected to see my media/movies and /tv shows on there but they are blank. So they show as part of the array but are not being allocated anything at all. Before the xfs conversion I upgraded to a larger parity drive, those are the only two changes I have made. What have I done wrong? What could I post to help someone help me? Thank you!!

Frank, I think I will buy that card you recommended I was curious though are transfers just as fast through PCIe as the onboard controllers?

Yes with my newly refreshed account I went and spent that and more for a amazon fulfilled disk, I forgot to check the manufacture date on the suspicious drive I'll check it next time I open it up I'm curious too. I just left the suspicious one in the array cuz why not, may as well eek out what life I can get from it.

It's all up and running and my blood pressure is back to normal I'm all out of free SATA connections on my board now, but I'll post in hardware on recommendations after searching thanks guys.

Perfect thank you.

It started a parity sync which was expected but can I stop it and do the permissions tool now and sync later?

Thank you!