BomB191 Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 So I have a 1TB Samsung_SSD_970_EVO. That I have abused to death (though it still functions) I cannot afford a new drive for a while so I'm thinking to cheaping out if my logic is correct on the matter. If i can shrink the volume to 500GB that should give the drive 500GB spare for all the dead areas. In theory extending its life because now it has 50% of the drive at disposal instead of the standard 10% I however cannot find anything speaking towards shrinking a volume of a single drive just drive swapping and cache pool changes. Is this something that A. Would work B. something that can be done and C. not completely stupid. Basically I need to extend the life of the cache drive for as long as I can until I can afford a new NVME drive (I need an array drive first) Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted April 5, 2021 Share Posted April 5, 2021 29 minutes ago, BomB191 said: I however cannot find anything speaking towards shrinking a volume of a single drive just drive swapping and cache pool changes. That's because Unraid automatically uses the full capacity of each assigned disk in a single partition. It may be possible to set a HPA on the drive that would make the drive appear smaller, but I don't know if that would accomplish what you want with regards to drive longevity. Perhaps setting the minimum free space to 500GB would be easier? Quote Link to comment
BomB191 Posted April 6, 2021 Author Share Posted April 6, 2021 To be fair since I removed my VHD from the drive I usually float around 300GB (plex images and all that fluff). Mover never operates as I have moved downloads to a HDD to you know cut back on read writes, I also have moved plex transcoding to RAM. So its primary function now is just appdata and plex stuff Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted April 6, 2021 Share Posted April 6, 2021 Have you upgraded to 6.9 yet? It had some things intended to alleviate some of this. Quote Link to comment
BomB191 Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 7 hours ago, trurl said: Have you upgraded to 6.9 yet? It had some things intended to alleviate some of this. yes I am on the latest version of Unraid Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 And did you reformat your SSDs to the new alignment? Quote Link to comment
BomB191 Posted April 7, 2021 Author Share Posted April 7, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, trurl said: And did you reformat your SSDs to the new alignment? There's a new alignment? I'll have to dig into the patch notes and find out what your talking about. Update: well the link to it on the patch notes goes to a dead page https://wiki.unraid.net/Unraid_OS_6.9.0#SSD_1_MiB_Partition_Alignment Google is proving useless too. Why would I want to change this? Edited April 7, 2021 by BomB191 Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 The post was moved : https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Release_Notes/Unraid_OS_6.9.0 1 Quote Link to comment
BomB191 Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 interesting read. But it doesn't seem anyone has solid evidence that changing that will improve anything from what I can see. I guess I will need to just keep an eye on it and hope its holds out until I can afford a new NVME drive. Thanks for the assistance though Quote Link to comment
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