I have a server ready to start and 2 xTB drives. My current system is Windows 7 with 3-4TB of data. I need to delete some old stuff first.

 

This is the current windows 7 setup spread over 5 drives

2 x 1TB

2 x 750GB

1 x 1.3TB

 

I want to setup the 2 x 2TB in Unraid and start migrating data over my network to the new drives. I will set onbe to offline and the other can become the parity later.

 

Once the 1.3TB on the win 7 system is copied I want to add it to the array and migrate the rest of my data prior to add the last 4 drives.

 

The question I have is how should I setup my shares and split levels given I will be adding more drives once  the data is off those drives and on the new ones?

 

Step 1 will only have one drive for data so split level will be not valid till I add the 1.3TB drive and subsequent drives correct?

 

What is best approach for this change split level as drives are added?

 

Move data between drives once we have them in the set?

 

can i then modify the split level later ?

 

Thanks Rick

 

 

You can modify the split level on any share at any time. Just remember it won't affect exisiting data, only new data written to the share..

 

So, on disk1 you have maybe \Movies, \Data, \Something whatever at top level. If all you want is those top level split among disks, then choose level 1 for each share.

If you have \Movies\DVD and Movies\BlueRay and want Movies and DVD\Blueray split among disks then choose level 2. Remember, you could choose level 2 for one share, level 1 for another share and say level 3 for another, and those shares can all be on the same disk(s).

Once you add new disks, then new data written to the share will follow the split level.

Remember though, if you write to the disk itself "mnt/disk1" then split level will be ignored.

 

Hope that helped a bit.   Split level seem to be one of the more confusing aspects...

 

Shawn