So to set up one giant share that unRaid will automatically span over disks,

 

 

disabled flash share and disk share

 

i set up a user share "testing"

Most Free - not that this matters, just says when it will go to the next disk

999 split level

 

 

that should do it, no?

 

It's easier to ask then to transfer 4TB worth of stuff and find out

 

Depending on the data you are storing you may want to use a split level of 1 or 2. This would make sure that data in subdirectories is all kept on the same drive. I don't know enough about the data to recommend something though.

 

Peter

well, my concern though, is what happens if i set it to two, and theres a folder beyond that that becomes larger than one drive

 

how does unraid react to that?  would it tell me i'm out of space even though there are other smaller drives that still have some space (because it's bound by this split level)?

I did a similar thing to yourself.

 

I wanted one big share so as to alleviate myself of managing if one directory/share got bigger than the hard drive it was sitting on,

so i just setup a shared called "unRAID" and set level to 10 (figured anything below that could be stored in same locale).

 

I have a mix of applications, photos, home videos, TV shows and Movies all stored in there, categorised in sub directories as well.

 

Works well for me.

As I posted, I don't know what you are trying to store. I have a number of shares. Things like TV and Movies follow fairly defined folder structures so I can use a split level of 1 and be quite safe. In fact, I would not want a specific movie directory or TV series directory to split. If the specific movie directory split then that would require that multiple drives were read to access that movie. Kind of the same thing for a TV series.

 

Other random data might not behave as well and require a higher split level.

 

And yes, there will be a disk full error if the settings lock the directory to a specific drive that is full.

 

I personally don't like or see the need for one big share. I have a few like Movies, TV Shows, Pictures, Applications, etc. There are different requirements for each so I do that to keep them sorted.

 

But, what you post is OK if you just want one big share and don't want to keep any specific organization. I believe that a split level of 0 will also allow the splits to happen wherever.

 

Peter

In my case, it's everything.  I really want it to be in one share, and although each kind of media, backup, other...ok so some of it's random....but each kind of MAJOR file type - pics, movies, music, backups  - are well organized, they are all organized on different levels.  MP3's you go 4-6 folders deep to get to teh .mp3.  with movies, it's two.picutres is even worse - 10+ directories deep.  With all of these it varies in specific instances as well. 

 

beyond that this way if i lose two drives i only lose 1/5th of my music and movie collections lol