June 14, 201214 yr I must be an idiot or something because I'm having horrendous problems getting a new disk installed. After receiving a bunch of help and finally getting the drive added to the array, unRAID refuses to use the new disk. I have these shares: Movies TV Shows Music iTunes Misc Media Pictures The shares that get used the most are TV Shows and Movies Both shares are set to Split Level 2 and High Water. Neither share uses Min. Free Space, nor do I use any Include or Exclude. According to the Wiki, the High Water uses a cut off of 60GB on each disk before moving to the next disk. My two old drives have 37.7GB and 56.1GB of free space. The new drive is listed as having 3TB of free space. But every time I try and copy something into the share Movies or TV Shows, it starts putting it on the drive with 56GB of free space and not the one with 3TB. What am I doing wrong?
June 14, 201214 yr I must be an idiot or something because I'm having horrendous problems getting a new disk installed. After receiving a bunch of help and finally getting the drive added to the array, unRAID refuses to use the new disk. I have these shares: Movies TV Shows Music iTunes Misc Media Pictures The shares that get used the most are TV Shows and Movies Both shares are set to Split Level 2 and High Water. Neither share uses Min. Free Space, nor do I use any Include or Exclude. According to the Wiki, the High Water uses a cut off of 60GB on each disk before moving to the next disk. My two old drives have 37.7GB and 56.1GB of free space. The new drive is listed as having 3TB of free space. But every time I try and copy something into the share Movies or TV Shows, it starts putting it on the drive with 56GB of free space and not the one with 3TB. What am I doing wrong? have you rebooted since adding the new disk? (most users report a newly added disk is not used until the server is rebooted) Joe L.
June 14, 201214 yr What Joe said. Also, when I was on 4.7...it isn't necessary, but I'd manually create the share folder first <just to help it along >
June 14, 201214 yr Author Unfortunately, yes, I did reboot and it's still copying files to the disk with 56GB of free space. Excuse my ignorance, but how do I create the shares on a specific disk?
June 14, 201214 yr Since I know you're using Windows Explorer. Map the disk share to your network, and then create the top level folder...ie "Movies" Edit: Also what is your free space: 60GB = 60000000 Another thing I do, although it should not be necessary...is manually type in the "included disks" for each share...ie disk1, disk2, disk3,....
June 14, 201214 yr Unfortunately, yes, I did reboot and it's still copying files to the disk with 56GB of free space. Excuse my ignorance, but how do I create the shares on a specific disk? then it is time to post specific screen shots of your share settings AND more importantly, the directory hierarchy you are attempting to copy to under Movies and TV Shows.. It sounds as if you are attempting to copy to a level 3 directory. (and it only exists on an existing drive, so it will never use the new drive) Joe L.
June 14, 201214 yr Author You are awesome! I went to \\tower\disk3 and created all 6 shares. Grabbed a movie from my desktop, navigated to \\tower, dropped it into the Movies user share and viola' it's now copying to the drive with 3TB of free space. Thank you so much. Is there any way to increase the 60GB cutoff for the High Water method? I'm getting random 10 - 30 second pauses when writing to the array. The Wiki says that's because there is more than 98% of the drive used. The problem is that with 3TB drives, 60GB is not enough free space. I know you can use Min Free Space, but I'm unsure how that works. If I would set it to lets say 40GB per share, isn't that cumulative? For example, setting all 6 shares to 40GB, would result in 240GB of free space on each drive provided I use each share. Is there a way to set that for each drive?
June 14, 201214 yr You have to tell the directory structre since the split level forces certain directories to stay on a single disk. You TV share could easily be set to keep a whole season on a single disk. So, no matter what other settings you change or how many reboots you try, the partially existing TV season that you're trying to complete will stay on the same disk it started to use. The high water does not use a fixed cut-off of 60gig. The 60gig number might have been given as an example but that is all. Not sure where you're reading but try the unofficial manual for a description of the high water. Free space is the free space which is left per disk. Use "Most Free" if you want the most free disk used whenever possible (when allowed by the split level).
June 14, 201214 yr Is there any way to increase the 60GB cutoff for the High Water method? I'm getting random 10 - 30 second pauses when writing to the array. The Wiki says that's because there is more than 98% of the drive used. The problem is that with 3TB drives, 60GB is not enough free space. Set it to your desired level in the UI, Min. Free Space http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Min._Free_Space <Set to "0" in your Shares 2.jpg in your post> http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20799.msg184745#msg184745 IIRC, one of your other drives are nearly full (>98%). Map those drives as well, and move them to the disk3 share. I know you can use Min Free Space, but I'm unsure how that works. If I would set it to lets say 40GB per share, isn't that cumulative? For example, setting all 6 shares to 40GB, would result in 240GB of free space on each drive provided I use each share. Is there a way to set that for each drive? Not cumulative. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Allocation_method
June 14, 201214 yr Author Hopefully this helps. I think I have things correct as far as split-level goes. If I'm reading this right, the Moves share should keep each individual movie together on the same drive. -Movies --Movie Name ---Movie.m2ts ---MoviePost.jpg The TV Show share should keep each season together -TV Shows --TV Show Name ---Season 1 ----TV Show S01E01 ----TV Show S01E02 And the music should keep each artist together -Music --Artist Name ---Album 1 ----Song 1 IIRC, one of your other drives are nearly full (>98%). Map those drives as well, and move them to the disk3 share. Actually 2 of my drives are >98% full. So just copy and past a few things from disk1 and disk2 to the new disk3? Set it to your desired level in the UI, Min. Free Space Which share should I use? I don't have one top level share like they do in the picture where is says "Media". For me the shares "Movies", "TV Shows", "Music", etc are the top level.
June 14, 201214 yr Set the free space the same for every share. This will keep the disks that free, if it is allowed by the split level. Remember, split level over-rides all other settings as far as when to choose a different disk. You Music share should use split level = 1 to keep each artist together. And yes, move some of the things off disk1 and disk2 to disk3 to free-up space. I'd recommend any continuing TV seasons get moved first or else the disks will get filled again.
June 14, 201214 yr Author Set the free space the same for every share. This will keep the disks that free, if it is allowed by the split level. Remember, split level over-rides all other settings as far as when to choose a different disk. Perfect. Thanks. I'm going to set them to about 80GB so I can keep the drives below 98% full. You Music share should use split level = 1 to keep each artist together. If I change that now will it keep the artists together from this point forward and won't change anything previously copied to the array? And yes, move some of the things off disk1 and disk2 to disk3 to free-up space. I'd recommend any continuing TV seasons get moved first or else the disks will get filled again. All my shows are done for the season, but that's a great point. I just copied a few movies from the old drives to the new ones. Each drive is showing 97% full. I'm running a parity check right now and then I think I'm good to go. Now all I have to do is address my cooling. Since I've added the new drive and starting running this hard with the preclear, copying files around and a parity check, the drive temperatures are around 42 degrees. I have a rear case fan, PS fan, and a fan in front of the drives. Perhaps I need to add another case fan on the side door or at the top just to increase airflow.
June 14, 201214 yr You Music share should use split level = 1 to keep each artist together. If I change that now will it keep the artists together from this point forward and won't change anything previously copied to the array? Correct.
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