Hello

 

I am new to unraid. I want to set up an unraid server with 4x 4TB + parity. I have many data (mainly self-recorded wav files from musicians) and it is still growing.

I have 5 main folders and in these from 1 to 8 sub folders levels - so my question is: should i use high water, split level 4 etc. as allocation method ?

 

Thank you

 

Have you read the documentation about this? Turn on Help in the webUI.

 

High-water is the default for a reason but it seems to confuse some. It is basically a trade-off between spinning up disks and distributing files over multiple disks.

 

Split level is intended to help keep files together if they belong together for some reason. This prevents spinup delays that might happen if you put them on separate disks. For example, you might want songs that belong to one "album" on the same disk so there is no delay when going to the next song.

 

Only you can decide what is best for you.

Yes i read the documentation about this. In my folder structure now there are up to eight sub folders in one folder. I think from level 2 (one sub folder) to level 4 (level 9?) (eight sub folders) according to the documentation in the same main folder so i don´t know whats is the difference when i choose level 4 vs high water? 

 

 

...level 4 vs high water...

Split level and allocation method are independent.

 

But split has precedence.