March 19, 20251 yr I've just about finished putting a lot of content on a newly built server. I'm a bit curious about the way the drive space has been allocated so far. It's 52TB of total available storage, as two 12 TB drives for parity, three 12 TB drives for data, and an additional two 8 TB data drives. Disk 1, 12TB, filled up to 6TB, then files started to be saved on Disk 2. Disk 2, 12TB, filled up to 6TB, then files started to be saved on Disk 3. Disk 3, 12TB, filled up to 6TB, then files started to be saved on Disk 4. All of that makes perfect sense. But then Disk 4, 8TB, only filled to one quarter of its capacity, just 2TB, before files were saved on Disk 5. Then Disk 5, also 8TB, only filled to one quarter of its capacity, just 2TB, before files went back to being saved on Disk 1. Why would the 12 TB drives fill to half capacity at first, but the 8TB drives only fill to one quarter capacity at the start? This was all from content saved to a single share with access to all disks, by the way.
March 19, 20251 yr Community Expert Solution That is expected behaviour. The cutover points are determined by the size of the largest drive, not as a percentage of each drive. The 8TB drives fills until there is 6TB left (the same as the 12TB ones before going back to disk1.
March 19, 20251 yr Author 3 minutes ago, itimpi said: That is expected behaviour. The cutover points are determined by the size of the largest drive, not as a percentage of each drive. The 8TB drives fills until there is 6TB left (the same as the 12TB ones before going back to disk1. Ah, that makes sense (of a sort)! 😄
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