September 29, 20232 yr I am extremely new to the unraid scene, I've only had my unraid server up and running for maybe two months now with the help and recommendation of a friend. So go easy on me if I'm making any stupid rookie mistakes! Anyways, I'm hosting a plex server on it, using sonarr and radarr, and using two drives ("disk1" - an 8tb drive, and "disk2" - a 4tb drive) as my array, with an additional 8tb parity. My problem, as stated in the title is pretty self explanatory, as my media share fills up, its ONLY putting data on disk1 (the 8tb drive), now I assumed based on the "highwater" setting that it probably wouldn't start to fill up disk2 (the 4tb) until the 8tb drive was about halfway full. But at this point, disk1 is a little over 5tb out of 8 filled up, and nothing is spilling over into disk2, so I'm starting to get concerned why it doesn't seem to be including disk 2 in the share, like I originally (or so i thought) set it up to do. Looking for some help or direction for troubleshooting if I may have made some errors on my original setup. I'll attach the diagnostic zip file as directed here and will add in some screenshots as well... Thanks in advance for any help! dojo-diagnostics-20230928-2145 (1).zip
September 29, 20232 yr Community Expert Solution That is expected behaviour. The potential cutover points are based on the size of the largest data drive. Since you say this is 8GB the first cutover point will occur when disk1 has 4TB left. Since at this point no drive has more than 4TB free then disk1 will continue to be used until it has 2TB free. It as that point you should expect disk2 to be used until it is down to 2TB free, etc This is described in some detail here in the online documentation accessible via the ‘Manual’ link at the bottom of the GUI or the DOCS link at the top of each forum page.
September 30, 20232 yr Super helpful!! I have a similar setup, and was wondering when it was going to spill over. Just tested it and worked as explained. Thanks! 6 hours ago, itimpi said: That is expected behaviour. The potential cutover points are based on the size of the largest data drive. Since you say this is 8GB the first cutover point will occur when disk1 has 4TB left. Since at this point no drive has more than 4TB free then disk1 will continue to be used until it has 2TB free. It as that point you should expect disk2 to be used until it is down to 2TB free, etc This is described in some detail here in the online documentation accessible via the ‘Manual’ link at the bottom of the GUI or the DOCS link at the top of each forum page. Edited September 30, 20232 yr by Milk
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