June 28, 201214 yr I currently have 4 drives, 1 parity and 3 data. I prefer to have .nfo and image files for TV shows and movies locally on the hard drives along with each TV show or Movie. I'm currently using Shares (High-Water). As it stands my files are starting to feel... fragmented. As an example, I may have the actual TV show episode on disk 1 along with the images for it but the nfo for that episode resides on disk2 or disk3. My question is this (regarding performance) - Will it be in my best interest to keep all of the files corresponding to a particular movie or TV show episode on the same disk? I realize that shows in particular tend to continue, thus grow in size making it difficult to keep an entire show all on one disk. But would it be optimal to at least keep the image files, nfo and corresponding episode all on the same disk? Or will it really matter? My fear is that when my server reaches maximum capacity (15 drives) it would be less efficient both performance and energy wise if files for a larger TV show with several seasons were to end up scattered across several disks. Should I start manually moving files from each disk to the other to restore some sort of "order", change up my share in some way, or leave everything as is? Perhaps I went about setting up shares incorrectly? Or is everything fine as is and I need not worry? Here is an example of my setup if anyone cares to critique it - //unRAID [TV Shows] - [Adventure Time] -- [season 01] --- S1E01 - Slumber Party Panic - Trouble In Lumpy Space.mkv The above is set up as High-water allocation with a split level of 2 and min free space of 0. My Movie shares are also High-water allocation but they are a split level of 1 and min free space of 0.
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