1. If I remove a drive from a share, will Lime just take care of moving all the files off of that drive and distribute them to other drives automatically? I want to create some spin-up groups, so I would, say, change my Movies share from disk1,disk2,disk3,disk4,disk5  to disk1,disk2,disk3. Would Lime just quietly move the Movies from disk4 and disk5 and distribute them among disk1,disk2,disk3?

And what if there isn't enough space on the new drive list?

 

2. To speed up copying over, I was considering just taking a disk full of stuff and placing it in the cache spot and invoking the mover. Would that work? Would the mover just move stuff onto the unRAID?

 

Thanks for the help and advice.

 

 

1. If I remove a drive from a share, will Lime just take care of moving all the files off of that drive and distribute them to other drives automatically? I want to create some spin-up groups, so I would, say, change my Movies share from disk1,disk2,disk3,disk4,disk5  to disk1,disk2,disk3. Would Lime just quietly move the Movies from disk4 and disk5 and distribute them among disk1,disk2,disk3?

And what if there isn't enough space on the new drive list?

 

No.  If a disk contains a folder with the name of the share, the contents of the folder will be included in the user share, regardless of the user share setting.  The user share setting controls where NEW files can be written.  So if you took a disk out of a user share, there would be no change to the user share contents.  UnRAID would not endeaver to rearrange your files onto other disks.  To take a disk out of a user share, you could rename the root level folder AND take it out of the user share setting.  Then the files would be removed from the user share and no new files would be written to the share on that disk.

 

2. To speed up copying over, I was considering just taking a disk full of stuff and placing it in the cache spot and invoking the mover. Would that work? Would the mover just move stuff onto the unRAID?

 

The mover is no faster moving stuff than you can do manually on the server, which is not hard to do.  Removing a disk from the array is a PITA and not something I'd recommend.

 

Thanks for the help and advice.

 

yw

1. no.  unRAID moves no files once they are on the protected disks.   It is a process you must perform manually.

2. yes  as long as you have enough space on the cache drivefor all the files, AND have set up the user-shares, allocation method, min-free space, and split levels appropriately.

3. spin-up groups work on a hardware basis, not a user-share basis.   I know of nobody who has posted that they have put all movies in a single spin-up-group.  (because then those disks could not be assigned a different spin-up-group for a different user-share too.  spin-up groups solve when IDE controllers pause one channel when spinning up the disk on the other channel.  if you don't have the hardware conflicts on host controllers, you probably do not need to mess with spin-up-groups)

Thanks for the great responses. I appreciate the help.