December 20, 201114 yr Hi, I am looking for some advice on a new setup. I will be using unRAID primary as a media server for my HTPC. I organize my media collection as follows: Movies Movie1 Movie2 . TV Shows TV show 1 TV show 2 . Documentaries Doc 1 Doc 2 . My Level 1 User Shares will be Movies, TV Shows and Documentaries. I would like each Share to have access to all disks as a single name space. I plan to use High Water as the Allocation method and Min. Free Space to 50GB. Finally, I don't care on what disk each specific Movie, TV Show or Doc folder lives but I do want each folder to reside on a single disk and not span disks. So, my question. I believe my Split Level should be set to 2. Is this correct?
December 20, 201114 yr So, my question. I believe my Split Level should be set to 2. Is this correct? yes
December 20, 201114 yr So, my question. I believe my Split Level should be set to 2. Is this correct? yes No. Movies = 1 TV Shows = 1 to keep whole series on a disk or 2 to keep each season on a disk. Documentaries = 1 Peter
December 20, 201114 yr Author Hmmm, let me try and clarify further. Take movies for example. I would like a top level Movies share. I will then copy my movies into it. Each movie is contained in its own folder. So if I map/open the Movies share on the network, I would expect to see a list of folders such as: Movie 1 Movie 2 Movie 3 . Since my movies far exceed the capacity of any single disk in the array, they will need to be stored on a few disks. So, I expect to see movies folders under a top level Movie (Level 1) folder on say 3 disks. This is fine. I however don't want any individual movie folder to span across two disks because during playback there will be pauses as unRAID would need to spin up another disk at some point during playback. Does this make sense?
December 20, 201114 yr Otherwise to do spil level 2 you would want something like this Media Movies Movie1 Movie2 TV Shows TV show 1 TV show 2 Documentaries Doc 1 Doc 2
December 21, 201114 yr Otherwise to do spil level 2 you would want something like this Media Movies Movie1 Movie2 TV Shows TV show 1 TV show 2 Documentaries Doc 1 Doc 2 correct, as this is what I have setup and it is working fine.
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