July 5, 200916 yr I am currently running server 4.4.2 and could use some advice on setting up split level. These are folders I have setup on the server, I know the second Media folder is redundant but it was necessary for when i was doing the initial setup and still had other sources for my data. Tower/Media/Media/Movies/Genre/*Movie*/_TS folders Tower/Media/Media/TV Shows/Show Name/Season/show Tower/Media/Media/Children's/*Movie*/_TS folders Tower/Media/Media/Children's/*Movie.avi* The most important is the stuff going into the movies folder, the others I could spoon feed through the individual disk shares. My initial guess is 3. Sorry if this is another idiot question. Thanks for your help.
July 6, 200916 yr First off, just want to make sure you know: split levels are optional, and they only have an effect when you write to a user share (not a disk share). The following is all wrong. See below. OK then, it looks to me like you will want to set your split level on your 'movies' share (not children's movies) to 8. Here's my reasoning: I assume you want to keep all your Video_TS files for a particular movie on one disk. So for the movie 'Coroline' in the genre 'Animation', your folder structure will look like: Tower / Media / Media / Movie / Animation / Coroline / Video_TS / a bunch of files 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 A split level of 8 for your 'movies' user share will ensure that each of your movies will be located on only one disk (hence, only one disk will have to spin up when you are playing that movie). If you want all your TV shows to reside on one disk, a split level of 7 would do it: Tower / Media / Media / TV Shows / Wonder Showzen / Season 1 / episode1.avi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 would also work for your children's movies in Video_TS format, and 6 for your children's movies in .avi format. A tip when playing with split levels - start with a large number and work your way down. If your split level is too high (say, 99) there won't be any negative consequences, everything will just be restricted to one disk. However, if you split level is too low (say, 1) you may scatter your files across all your disks and then have to regroup them manually (which would be a pain). Note: If you got rid of your redundant 'media' folder, then all your split levels would drop by 1. I would appreciate it if a hero member would review this and give it the 'OK', or correct me if I'm wrong.
July 6, 200916 yr First off, just want to make sure you know: split levels are optional, and they only have an effect when you write to a user share (not a disk share). OK then, it looks to me like you will want to set your split level on your 'movies' share (not children's movies) to 8. Here's my reasoning: I assume you want to keep all your Video_TS files for a particular movie on one disk. So for the movie 'Coroline' in the genre 'Animation', your folder structure will look like: Tower / Media / Media / Movie / Animation / Coroline / Video_TS / a bunch of files 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 A split level of 8 for your 'movies' user share will ensure that each of your movies will be located on only one disk (hence, only one disk will have to spin up when you are playing that movie). If you want all your TV shows to reside on one disk, a split level of 7 would do it: Tower / Media / Media / TV Shows / Wonder Showzen / Season 1 / episode1.avi 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 would also work for your children's movies in Video_TS format, and 6 for your children's movies in .avi format. A tip when playing with split levels - start with a large number and work your way down. If your split level is too high (say, 99) there won't be any negative consequences, everything will just be restricted to one disk. However, if you split level is too low (say, 1) you may scatter your files across all your disks and then have to regroup them manually (which would be a pain). Note: If you got rid of your redundant 'media' folder, then all your split levels would drop by 1. I would appreciate it if a hero member would review this and give it the 'OK', or correct me if I'm wrong. i am not a hero member by any stretch of the imagination, but with all due respect, i believe that you have split levels confused. split level of 99 scatters everything around and split level of 1 will consolidate everything (in the OP's case) onto one drive. to the OP: if your general media structure is: /media/media/movie/genre/title /media/media/tv shows/tv show title/season then having the following split levels will have these effects: split level 0: unraid will attempt to fit all media onto one drive (obviously not desired) split level 1: allow splitting of the 1st directory in the structure, but still forces all media onto one drive (due to the redundant "media" folders) split level 2: will split the 2nd media directory, thus forcing all movies onto one drive and all tv shows onto one (the same or different) drive split level 3: splits the "movie" and "tv show" directory, thus forcing all movies of the same genre onto the same drive, and forcing all the seasons and episodes of any given tv show onto the same drive. split level 4: splits the "genre" and "tv show title" directory, which would allow your movies and their genres to freely span all discs (but maintain that all subdirectories and files for a particular movie are on ONE disc; for example, the Coraline directory would be assigned to ANY disc, but then all of it's files would be on that SAME disc; if you also have "Finding Nemo" in the same genre folder as Coraline, it could be on a totally different disc, but again all of it's files would be on that ONE disc); this would also allow seasons of a tv show to span discs, but all the episodes of any given season would be on the same disc (for example, if you have "Lost" on your server, the folders for seasons 1 and 2 could be on different discs, but ALL episodes in those folders would stay on the appropriate respective hard drives) based on what you've described, you just need to decide if it's important to you to have all the movies of a particular genre on the same disc. a split level of 3 or 4 would be appropriate (4 might work out better if you have a ton of movies that all fall into a certain genre). please someone chime in if i've made a mistake. i hope this helps.
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