hi, i know there are alot of split level and share related question but i didnt seem to find what i needed.

 

basically i just want unraid to be one big volume and i dont want to deal with different disks and whats on them as such. which i know i can basically do with a user share. i shall just make a share called "unraid" or something which can just mount on my systems and then then just make the directories within that folder for what i need.

my current set up is 1tb party, 3x1tb and a 250gb and a 120gb.

 

im unsure of which split level to use, im not too concerned about where things are on acutal disks aslong as i have access to the total pool of storage. so no matter if im storing something in say //tower/unraid/ or //tower/unraid/media/tv_recordings . i also dont want too many drives spinning up. so if for example i am looking at folder of picture i dont want picture 1 to be on disk 1 and picture 2 to be on disk 2 and 3 on disk 3 and so on so every drive is spinning up just to view them.

 

would i be correct in thinking that if i set the share to split level 0 and also to high water. disk 1 would fill up to half (and therefore the only drive spunup) and then at half way move on to drive 2 and fill that drive to half way and so on. what im trying to avoid is dragging my collection of family photos and having picture 1 stored on disk 1 and picture 2 one disk 2 and picture 3 on disk 3.. and so on.

 

or for another example would the files in the folder in share //tower/unraid/tv_recordings from  from disk 1 to 2 when it hit the high water? or what i get an out of space error all the recordings would be in the root of tv_recordings

 

thanks

Your described usage means no-one can define a usable split level.

 

Split levels are only useful when you have a structured storage method. A share only for movies where you store the movies in a specific way is an example of this.

 

A "big share where you can just dump stuff however" is not.

 

You won't get a useful answer until you define the storage folder structure.

 

Peter