Hi Guys,

 

I am setting up a second unRAID server (using latest version) for a buddy of mine. I have three 4TB drives, one for parity and two for storage. I am also using an old 1TB drive for a cache drive.

 

I have setup the shares this way... I have a share called "Media" which is basically found by going to /mnt/user/Media.

 

Within media, I have folders called, Movies, TV, and Music.

 

My share is setup to be "Level 2 - combine files to second level subfolders within share 'Media". My hope is that a single movie or TV show gets all placed on a single drive.

 

 

My hope is to end up with something like this:

/mnt/disk1

    /Movies

        /Movie A

        /Movie B

        /Movie C

    /TV

        /TV SHow 1

        /TV SHow 2

 

/mnt/disk2

    /Movies

        /Movie D

        /Movie E

        /Movie F

    /TV

        /TV SHow 3

        /TV SHow 4

 

This is how I setup my original unRAID. But with this new 2 drive unRAID, everything is getting written only to the first drive. So drive 1 has used 1.33TB out of the 4TB total... Drive 2 has 3.99TB free....! I successfully copied manually a movie to drive 2 to see if there was an issue writing to it... there was no issue.

 

Everything does get written initially to the cache drive, but why aren't the movies and tv shows being split up between the 2 drives?

 

Drive 2 was properly pre-cleared.

 

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

 

Many thanks,

 

H.

           

What is the share allocation method set to?  I suspect it is set to "high water", which fills the first drive 1/2 full before beginning to use the 2nd drive. Set it to "most free". It should then place newly copied files on disk2.

Technically by the definition of "high water" in the unRaid wiki it should be using disk 2 as well, but it's not clear whether or not it round-robins writes or fills one to 1/2 full before moving to the other. Regardless, setting the allocation method to "most free" should resolve the issue.

Thank you Dirty... changing that setting now... I will report.

Thanks again... that did it....      I copied 30 GB to my Movies folder, I invoked the mover, and files started being copied to Disk 2.  I did not know High-water waitig for a half full situation...

 

Thanks again for your help.

 

H.