Is it possible to control shares and drives so that a particular share is only written to a particular drive?  I'm running eight drives across three controllers and there is a pretty significant performance drop off between my mobo drives and my PCi drives (PCix2 & just PCi).  Because of this I would like unRAID to put my more archival material onto the slower drives.  I have a share set up called ARCHIVE and I would like that share only written to my slower drives.

 

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

 

**edit**

I found my own answer right after posting this.  It's right on the SHARES setting tab.

 

Just to be sure you understand the Includes and Excludes:  Do NOT use both.  Either Include the drives you want;  or Exclude the drives you don't want.  But don't use both settings.

 

Just to be sure you understand the Includes and Excludes:  Do NOT use both.  Either Include the drives you want;  or Exclude the drives you don't want.  But don't use both settings.

 

Thanks for that.  I was using both.  I'll go back and fix that. 

 

Is it better to "include" or to "exclude"?

 

Either should work fine. In your scenario, you could either have ARCHIVE exclude your mobo drives, or have ARCHIVE include your non-mobo drives.

 

If you think you are likely to add drives to the non-mobo ports in the future and let ARCHIVE use those, but will always want it to exclude your mobo drives, then it would be simpler to use exclude, then you wouldn't have to change it later when adding new drives to non-mobo ports.

 

Or similar logic for other scenarios.