December 22, 201510 yr I have a 3-drive setup for now: 3TB HGST (Parity), 3TB HGST (Disk 1), 500GB WDC (Disk 2, to be replaced when full). Most of the data is media, both video and audio files. My concern is that ALL the data is being stored on Disk 1, which only has 480GB free space (see attached main.jpg), while Disk 2 has all of its 500GB free. All of the shares are configured to use the "high-water" allocation method (see attached shares.jpg) , but still every time I copy a file to a share it goes to Disk 1. Anyone please tell me what I should be doing to get files to go to Disk 2? Thanks!
December 22, 201510 yr High water means that once disk 1 hits 3tb/2 (1.5tb) / 2 (750 gig) / 2 (375 gig) then it will start storing on the 500 gig (until it hits 375 gig)
December 22, 201510 yr Author Thanks Squid! Then the documentation needs to be made clearer because it says: "High-water (system default): This method attempts to fill each disks as equally as it can. For example, it fills Disk1 halfway, then fills Disk2 halfway, etc. When each data disk is filled halfway, it moves back to Disk1 and fills it three-quarters of the way,and so on." Or maybe I interpreted it the wrong way?
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