how to set unraid to write to all disk at same time


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When I transfer files to unraid array it will only transfer this data to a single drive. Is there a way to improve speeds by making unraid do simultaneous transfers of the files to each drive in the array at the same time instead of just a single one? I'd imagine this would make unraid have ZFS like speeds whenever doing random i/o write operations

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13 hours ago, Michael_P said:

No, that's not how unraid works

Why not?

This is indeed possible but I found out if I do it by share each disks then doin each transfer folder to each of the individual disk, it does work but is not really usable. I am using UNRAID shares as a whole but was wondering if a feature  like this is hidden somewhere or as a plugin

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14 hours ago, Hellomynameisleo said:

When I transfer files to unraid array it will only transfer this data to a single drive. Is there a way to improve speeds by making unraid do simultaneous transfers of the files to each drive in the array at the same time instead of just a single one? I'd imagine this would make unraid have ZFS like speeds whenever doing random i/o write operations

This is actually counter-productive if the main array has a parity drive as the contention for the updates to the parity drive makes the transfers slow down so much that it is quicker to do them one after another.

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