I guess I don't get it.  I thought I understood how this worked but one of my drives filled up the other day and obviously I don't understand.  After it filled (disk 2) and the mover started failing I deleted the BIN share files which was a years worth of deleted files, quite a few gigs worth so now I have only 73% used on that disk.  I know why the disk filled and the mover failed as one of my backups was larger than the share Min. free space but the disk was 98% full when it tried to write the file.  Why with a High Water setting did it even try to write that Disk at all?  I thought high water would fill all my disks 1/2 full, then fill all disks 3/4 full then 7/8's etc.

 

Here's the deal....

 

 

and here is my typical setup.  I have about 12 shares like this.

 

 

can someone tell me what I'm doiing wrong?

 

Thanks,

 

Ken

Split level may be too low.

with a split level=1, maybe its b/c of your directory structure under 'movies' (eg only one directory would do that).

 

steve

I suppose keeping each TV show locked to one disk could cause the problem for really long running shows....  I'll adjust it different for TV directories and see what happens.  Keeping each movie to one disk should not cause a problem.

 

 

 

 

 

if your share is setup like this:

 

\\tower\media\tv shows\show\episode then a split level of 1 will keep all the shows on a single drive.

 

 

 

There is no \media\ in there just ;

 

\\tower\TV\Title\Season01\ep.mkv

 

at split level 1 I figure  \\tower\TV\Title\* would be locked to one disk.

at split level 2 I figure \\tower\TV\Title\Season\* would be locked to one disk - ie the same Title with a different season could be on another disk.

 

being I was at level 1 I am assuming that only a new Title could be written to disk 3 (after Disk 2 passed 50%) and any existing show's new seasons would be added only on disk 2 (the disk that filled)