pokes Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Hi, new to Unraid I have 5 x 4TB disks in an array 1 disk for parity ~ disk 1 in one share & disks 2,3 & 4 in another share Used High-water allocation on the array & Warning disk utilization 78% ~ Critical disk utilization 80% on all Disk 2 has gone past 80% & is still being written to ... Disks 3 & 4 are 74% & 75% How can I stop writing to Disk 2 without loosing the ability to read from it? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 Just now, pokes said: Hi, new to Unraid I have 5 x 4TB disks in an array 1 disk for parity ~ disk 1 in one share & disks 2,3 & 4 in another share Used High-water allocation on the array & Warning disk utilization 78% ~ Critical disk utilization 80% on all Disk 2 has gone past 80% & is still being written to ... Disks 3 & 4 are 74% & 75% How can I stop writing to Disk 2 without loosing the ability to read from it? This is almost certainly due to the Split Level you have set for the shares in question. When unRaid tries to select a disk for a file in the event of contention between settings on the share then Split Level always takes precedence. You also have the option to Exclude any specific disk(s) from a share which will stop any new files being written to that disk, but the files will still be found for read purposes. Quote Link to comment
pokes Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 Thanks for the quick reply So in "Share Settings" for disks 2,3 & 4 I added disk 2 to "Excluded disks" .. do I remove it from "Included disk" as it's now in both? also does Split Level always takes precedence when adding new files to a share that are not in any sub-folder? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 2 hours ago, pokes said: Thanks for the quick reply So in "Share Settings" for disks 2,3 & 4 I added disk 2 to "Excluded disks" .. do I remove it from "Included disk" as it's now in both? also does Split Level always takes precedence when adding new files to a share that are not in any sub-folder? You should use EITHER Include OR Exclude - not both. Files that belong in a share should still be found for read purposes even on disks that are not on the include list. By definition all shares are in a folder as the top level of a share is a folder corresponding to the Share name. Quote Link to comment
pokes Posted April 9, 2021 Author Share Posted April 9, 2021 1 hour ago, itimpi said: You should use EITHER Include OR Exclude - not both Thanks for all your help ... Unraid somehow allowed Include & Exclude on disk 2, this did stop any writing to that disk but I have now unticked the "Include" in my Share Settings on Disk 2 , as I was thinking it could cause problems I couldn't find a defining answer to this in FAQ, but I did find this Thanks Again Quote Link to comment
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