June 14, 201115 yr Hi All Brand spanking new to the UnRAID software. I bought the plus license and currently have a HP MicroServer with 5x 2TB Hitachi drives in it. Currently the whole thing is doing a parity sync. This brings me to the setup of a share, I followed as best I could this guide: http://www.lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Shares I have the following setup but I am not sure about it: SHARE Allocation Method: Most Free Min Free Space: Split Level: Level 4 Included Disk(s): disk1,disk2,disk3,disk4 (disk6 is the parity drive) Excluded Disk(s): Export (SMB): Export read/write Now until the parity sync is done I will not be sending any files to it. What worries me though is that I bought UnRAID under the assumption I could setup a RAID5 like configuration. I don't need or want to separate files across separate drives (UnRAID can do this in the background if it wants) I just want the drives to appear as one folder and for that to have roughly 7.2TB of space to be used. All advice welcome. Please note I am new, some or ALL of the above could be wrong. If you do reply to the thread please assume nothing.
June 14, 201115 yr It seems you just need one user share (perhaps called "Media") - you can leave out the included/excluded disks (it will use all available disks by default). Most people use the "High Water" allocation method, rather than most free. Only remaining item is the split level - this determines how UnRaid splits data between disks. If you can give an example of the way your data is organized and how you would prefer it split over disks, I can tell you what level setting you need (prob not 4).
June 14, 201115 yr Author Only remaining item is the split level - this determines how UnRaid splits data between disks. If you can give an example of the way your data is organized and how you would prefer it split over disks, I can tell you what level setting you need (prob not 4). Cheers, TV > Show > Season > Movies > Type >
June 14, 201115 yr Only remaining item is the split level - this determines how UnRaid splits data between disks. If you can give an example of the way your data is organized and how you would prefer it split over disks, I can tell you what level setting you need (prob not 4). Cheers, TV > Show > Season > Movies > Type > If I were you, I'd put them into 2 different user shares... TV and Movies. Then use a split level of 2 for the TV (will keep all seasons together for a given TV series). Don't quite follow your movies structure. Do you mean? Movies > Action > An Action Movie (2006) > An Action Movies (2006).mkv If so, I'd go with 3, basically leaving it to split it up by movie
June 14, 201115 yr Author Sorry, didn't really lay that out very well. Media > TV Show Season Media > Movies 720 What is the theory behind making a new share for say the TV shows? The problem I have is that say I have 2TB drive full of movies and another only 60% full of TV shows wouldn't this then mean I would be un-able to use the remaining 40% because it was earmarked for TV shows.
June 14, 201115 yr Author No. All User shares use all disks by default. So your saying that the 40% would be put to good use?
June 14, 201115 yr Yes. All the User shares use all the drives by default. You can limit to which drives a User share can write, if desired.
June 15, 201115 yr Author I removed the Level 4 all together, that field is now blank. Hope that works still.
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