November 2, 20232 yr Hi All Ive been setting up a new NAS using Unraid, and so far, really good. My old NAS had 5 HDDs of all different sizes, all shared as individual "drives". For unraid, i bought one big HDD that could hold everything and ive been moving everything over to there. All done, all good, and much better organised. So the stuff on the new big HDD is largely backups of files and documents etc and Media. Its a 12TB drive, and its a bit noisy when it starts up. The last of the data to move across is all the stuff i use day to day, so downloads, music, emulators i might be messing about with etc. So ive just added a new HDD and i'm about to setup my new share. I wondered if i should set only the new quieter drive for the share. and leave the other shares able to use this new drive also. The idea being, for my day to day stuff, it wouldnt spin up the noisier drive. Does this seem like a good idea? or am i likely to run into problems doing this? The stuff in the downloads folder may eventually be moved into the main media shares, and they might be on the main large disk, or the new smaller one, (or any other disks added later). When ive searched regarding "included disks" for shares, i read something suggesting that moving files on a disk to the same disk can be problematic... though i dont really see why... perhaps ive misunderstood... Anyway, some guidance on this would be great. Thanks
November 2, 20232 yr The share settings dictate how unraid will choose a disk for writing. If you set included disks, only those disks will be considered for writing of new files. If you set excluded, all other disks are considered. If you don't specify anything, then drives allowed under Settings > Global Share settings are allowed. So if you want all new files to be written to your new disk (say that's disk2) then set the share to include disk2. It's personal preference really with perhaps some performance considerations, but nothing wrong with doing it. Unraid will still read files that exist on any included/excluded disks if the share exists on them.
November 3, 20232 yr Author Great, thanks for that, good to know i wasnt about to do something stupid.
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