February 29, 201214 yr Sorry for what I realize is a common question. I have read some others, as well as the thread on shares from the "best of the forum" on the wiki. Sometimes I cant get my head around things (ok MOST of the time I cant). Currently I have completed pre-clear on 2 disks. a 3tb parity drive, and a 2 tb array drive. The Parity check is now running...316 minutes to go. I am approaching the part where I add users/shares and files. This is what I cant get my head around. My setup will likely look like this Media - Movies -TV shows -show name Music -artist Photos -iphoto? or maybe just a backup of it Home Movies -folder I am hoping to configure sabnzbd and sickbeard to run on it as well - not sure if I need to keep that in mind when creating users? My Media is pulled to XBMC. Thanks for reading.
February 29, 201214 yr Take a look at the user share section in the unofficial manual on the Wiki. There are a few examples with explanations. You'll find that the structure of your Media share is not really ideal. Peter
February 29, 201214 yr Author Thanks I will look at that. I should have mentioned I am not really tied to any directory structure, its a fresh build.
February 29, 201214 yr Take a look at the user share section in the unofficial manual on the Wiki. There are a few examples with explanations. You'll find that the structure of your Media share is not really ideal. Peter What's wrong with that media structure? You can split it at level 3 and have each TV series on a separate disk but with the seasons staying together, and all movies on a separate disk (where, in my case at least, any movies that are split into 2 disks are in a subfolder, so they would stay together). In terms of music and photos, if I were you I'd put the split level at 0 for those as you're more likely to flick about frequently between them. For example, playing all your music on random or flicking through lots of photos.
February 29, 201214 yr What's wrong with that media structure? You can split it at level 3 and have each TV series on a separate disk but with the seasons staying together, and all movies on a separate disk (where, in my case at least, any movies that are split into 2 disks are in a subfolder, so they would stay together). In terms of music and photos, if I were you I'd put the split level at 0 for those as you're more likely to flick about frequently between them. For example, playing all your music on random or flicking through lots of photos. Did you look at the Wiki? The only valid level for that structure is level 2 and then each complete TV series has to remain on a single disk. This could be a problem with a continuing series as the disks get full. I'm not sure how you figured 3 was correct but that will allow the movies to split up all over the place and it won't keep a single TV series on the same disk. As I already posted, the unofficial manual covers this. I put a split level example with almost the same structure. It explains what each split level from 1 to 4 does and makes it clear that 2 is the only correct number. Split level 0 isn't as simple as you make it out to be either and I'm not sure why you equate 0 to being best when accessing the share more. Setting 0 will basically lock the share to the first disk it's created on until you manually create the required share directory structure on another disk. The best plan is to use the include disks field, eg enter disk2, if the OP wants the music or photos to be locked to a disk. Then, still pick an appropriate split level. Down the road, change the include disks field to include another disk, for example enter disk2 disk3, to allow the share to begin using both disks. Peter
February 29, 201214 yr I must have misinterpreted it - the Wiki says: If the share were organized differently, for example according to genre: Movies SciFi Alien Action Basic Dejavu Kids Cars Then you would set Split level to 2. This will let the genres expand among all disks, but still ensure that the contents of the actual movie directories stay within the same disk. If you set the Split level to 0 for a share, then all directories/files created under that share will be on the same disk where the share was originally created. Which I found somewhat confusing - it implies that only the genres expand among all disks (i.e. any genre can be on any disk) then goes on to say that the contents of the movie directories stay on the same disk, but it didn't mention how the contents of the genres directory are split. That was the main example that I took it from so clearly I misread - don't mean to cause confusion. Also - that's where I got the split level of 0 thing from. I just figured, you're most likely to flick about between your music tracks or pictures, so setting your media player to random would keep all the disks spun up if the contents were on multiple disks.
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