January 22, 201610 yr I need some understanding on UserShares. I created Share called Media. From my understanding this will be level and everything folder I put in here will be created across all drives.. I have setup my shares up to use all the drives. Inside of Media I have the following levels. Moveis, Tv Shows, Music. Inside of movies I have HD Movies, Christmas Movies, SD Movies. As I test I put a few movies in each folder, I also moved over some TV shows and some music. I have let this sit for 3 days now and still today the drive that this data is on is Disk1. Disk2, and 3 have nothing on them. for my setup details I have High water and I selected "automatically split only the top level directory and I have it set to use all the drives. Can someone explain to me if I am doing something wrong or a different way to get this to work. My understanding of the product was that unraid would distribute the data evenly if I use user shares. I have read this document over and over and I followed it to setup my share. http://lime-technology.com/setting-up-your-file-structure-and-user-shares-on-unraid/ Thanks in advance for you help.
January 22, 201610 yr The document you linked explains high-water. 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. Is disk1 half-full yet?
January 23, 201610 yr Author No disk 1 is not full.. The way I understood the artical that High water puts data everywhere not just 1 drive until it was fool... What settings do I need for it to be equal.. If I copy 3 movies to the movie folder I would like for it them all to be on different disk
January 23, 201610 yr No disk 1 is not full.. The way I understood the artical that High water puts data everywhere not just 1 drive until it was fool... What settings do I need for it to be equal.. If I copy 3 movies to the movie folder I would like for it them all to be on different disk I didn't ask if it was full. That would be Fillup. I asked if it was half-full. In other words it won't switch to another disk until half the space is used on disk1. Then it switches to disk2 until half its space is used. Then disk3 until half its space is used. And so on until the last disk then it switches back to disk1 until half of its remaining space is used up, then disk2 and so on. You could set it to Most-free instead then it would put the next file on the disk with the most free space.
January 23, 201610 yr Read this. It should explain it. https://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#Allocation_method unRAID never moves files once they are placed on a disk.
January 23, 201610 yr As noted, you need to read the details of the available allocation methods. If all 3 of your disks are the same size, then setting the allocation method to Most Free will do what you want. In any event, you should read about what each of the methods does, and then select the one that matches how you'd like your data allocated. Alternatively, you could copy new data to the disk shares [i.e. instead of copying to \\Tower\Media you could copy to \\Tower\DiskX\Media ] and force new data to be on the disk you want.
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