Joshndroid Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Hey all, New to unraid. Been previously using drive in pairs and manually syncing data between them, I guess in a sense manually preventing use/spinup I have since moved to unraid which looks great consolidating a few of my pc's & drives. Basically have 6 x 3TB with 2 in parity at the moment with 2 in disks, with 2 more to add to the array once I have finished the transfer back to the array. What i have been reading so far is that high water is fine as the default. I am currently in the process of transferring data back to the array before adding those disks to the array. I have been unable to find at what % utilization does the storage drive spill to the next drive? I am currently seeing drive 1 at 91% The other drive is now at 12% Can you force a manual spill if its over a defined amount? Can you set at what % it spills? I ask mainly as the critical drive utilization percent is 90% in the settings yet as above my drive says 91 so am wondering if I have to force it for the rest to balance Cheers. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 9 minutes ago, Joshndroid said: I am currently seeing drive 1 at 91% The other drive is now at 12% It moves to the next drive at 50% of available space. But, with 12% and 91% it's probably your split levels which are overriding the percentages. https://wiki.unraid.net/UnRAID_6/Storage_Management#Split_level Quote Link to comment
Joshndroid Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 Thanks for the reply. so I have it at the default so I think I would need it to be in level 2 to move those files across as they are folder first level down from the top level 'media' share. Can I force them to move by changing the split level? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted April 3, 2021 Share Posted April 3, 2021 Unraid never balances or moves files around for you. You'd probably want to use the Unbalance app for that. Quote Link to comment
Joshndroid Posted April 3, 2021 Author Share Posted April 3, 2021 9 hours ago, Squid said: Unraid never balances or moves files around for you. You'd probably want to use the Unbalance app for that. Thanks for that. I managed to get unbalance on and working, pushing a good 20% off the first disk for now. Once I add the 3rd disk ill do some more movement. Thanks Quote Link to comment
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