March 3, 201313 yr My movies collection consist mainly of Bluray rips, MKVs and DVDs, there ara also some AVIs and WMVs. Would it be beneficial, regarding speed of access and drives spinup, to have four separate user shares (Bluray, MKV, DVD, Misc) with their own included disks. Is this better than creating one user share with four subfolders?
March 3, 201313 yr First thing you have to decide is who and what you are going to attempt to optimize. If you know you have a movie named "Bravesoul", do you want to optimize the hardware parameters or have the user quickly find the movie in question? With your proposed organization with four user shares, the user would have four places to begin to look. Not what I would call a 'user friendly environment'! BTW, Cache Directories (called 'Folder caching' in SF) will solve most of the spin-up issues...
March 3, 201313 yr Unless he's using something like xbmc, he can add all the separate sources and they will appear together in the library. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using Tapatalk 2
March 4, 201313 yr Author First thing you have to decide is who and what you are going to attempt to optimize. If you know you have a movie named "Bravesoul", do you want to optimize the hardware parameters or have the user quickly find the movie in question? With your proposed organization with four user shares, the user would have four places to begin to look. Not what I would call a 'user friendly environment'! BTW, Cache Directories (called 'Folder caching' in SF) will solve most of the spin-up issues... Thanks, I want to optimize it hardware wise. Right now the user shares use disk 1-15 of my array, and my question is if it would be better to have my blurays grouped to gether on 5-6 disks, mkvs on 5 other disks and so on. My mediaplayers have some sort of videowall or jukebox system so they don't actually bother on which disk or in which folder the file is.
March 4, 201313 yr First thing you have to decide is who and what you are going to attempt to optimize. If you know you have a movie named "Bravesoul", do you want to optimize the hardware parameters or have the user quickly find the movie in question? With your proposed organization with four user shares, the user would have four places to begin to look. Not what I would call a 'user friendly environment'! BTW, Cache Directories (called 'Folder caching' in SF) will solve most of the spin-up issues... Thanks, I want to optimize it hardware wise. Right now the user shares use disk 1-15 of my array, and my question is if it would be better to have my blurays grouped to gether on 5-6 disks, mkvs on 5 other disks and so on. My mediaplayers have some sort of videowall or jukebox system so they don't actually bother on which disk or in which folder the file is. Honestly, if anything, it'd probably be better for everything to be on everything, assuming that your library reader doesn't spin up all the drives whenever it scans it (E.G. cache_dirs).
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