July 22, 201312 yr Author So if I did Split Level 1 with Movies. \\tower\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar.mkv \\tower\Movies\The Impossible (2012)\The Impossible.mkv Both movies will be on separate drives correct? For SplitLevel 2 the TV Shows season folder's will be on a separate drive. And for Music each album will be on a separate drive hey?
July 22, 201312 yr So if I did Split Level 1 with Movies. \\tower\Movies\Avatar (2009)\Avatar.mkv \\tower\Movies\The Impossible (2012)\The Impossible.mkv Both movies will be on separate drives correct? For SplitLevel 2 the TV Shows season folder's will be on a separate drive. And for Music each album will be on a separate drive hey? Yes. Well, to put it properly you'd have to say they might be on different disks depending on how the disks are filling and the allocation method. For example, Say you have a server with 2 data disks and you use the most free allocation method. If both disks were empty and you copied a 10gig movie to the array then one disk would have 10 gig on it. If you then copied a bunch of music to the array it would all go to the other disk until you had copied 10gig worth of music and then it would start splitting between the 2 disks.
July 23, 201312 yr Author So if I copied 3tb worth of Movies in 1 go, they would all go onto the same disk?!
July 23, 201312 yr So if I copied 3tb worth of Movies in 1 go, they would all go onto the same disk?! It depends on the allocation method. If you had the default one of High-Water then that might be true as that method tends to fill up a disk to a pre-determined point before switching to the next disk. Having said that 3TB would certainly result in more than one disk being used, just not necessarily in equal amounts. If you had the Most Free method set then the files are spread more equally across the disks.
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