October 14, 20178 yr I have 6 non-parity, 5 of which have < 200GB free (one under 100GB), one new one with 5TB free. For performance issues, is there any reason to rebalance the free space? I run PMS via docker with many users simultaneous. Thanks!
October 14, 20178 yr I don't think so. My drives are filled then I move on to using the next drive. The only time I move files around, outside of drive replacements, is if a slight OCD takes over and I want movies from the same set to be on the same drive (such as Aliens or LOTR etc...)
October 14, 20178 yr I only move things around if a drive runs out of space and I need more for files in other directories.
October 14, 20178 yr I've just gone through this after adding my first drive in nearly 12 months. I grouped some of my shares onto certain drives to keep noise/spin ups down e.g. I do my downloads to disk 3 and I've moved my kids tv shows and movies to disk 3. This way when I'm working at the PC and the kids are watching TV, disk 3 is already spinning so there's no extra noise. All the kids tv is on this drive as they tend to flick around a lot, so again reducing spin-ups I've put my work files on disk 4 and the rest of the kids movies for the same reason grown-up movies and tv are on disks 1,2,5,6 i.e. they will spin-up in the evenings when i'm not at the PC as I'm watching something or someone else is. For TV, I've grouped my seasons using split-levels onto single disks so once a show is chosen the next episode loads immediately I write new grown-up movies and tv to the cache so to reduce 'unnecessary' spin-ups during the day My goal is to only have disk 3 and maybe 4 spinning (and parity of course), while I'm working to keep my system nice and quiet. So far it's working
October 14, 20178 yr Author 11 hours ago, BRiT said: I don't think so. My drives are filled then I move on to using the next drive. The only time I move files around, outside of drive replacements, is if a slight OCD takes over and I want movies from the same set to be on the same drive (such as Aliens or LOTR etc...) Just now, BobPhoenix said: I only move things around if a drive runs out of space and I need more for files in other directories. Well thanks, both of you. I thought HDD performance suffered when they were closer to max capacity. Is this not true or is it negligible for my usage type? I could just use the rebalance tool to balance. If there is literally no point, I can just leave it how it is!
October 14, 20178 yr Author 2 minutes ago, DZMM said: I've just gone through this after adding my first drive in nearly 12 months. I grouped some of my shares onto certain drives to keep noise/spin ups down e.g. I do my downloads to disk 3 and I've moved my kids tv shows and movies to disk 3. This way when I'm working at the PC and the kids are watching TV, disk 3 is already spinning so there's no extra noise. All the kids tv is on this drive as they tend to flick around a lot, so again reducing spin-ups I've put my work files on disk 4 and the rest of the kids movies for the same reason grown-up movies and tv are on disks 1,2,5,6 i.e. they will spin-up in the evenings when i'm not at the PC as I'm watching something or someone else is. For TV, I've grouped my seasons using split-levels onto single disks so once a show is chosen the next episode loads immediately I write new grown-up movies and tv to the cache so to reduce 'unnecessary' spin-ups during the day My goal is to only have disk 3 and maybe 4 spinning (and parity of course), while I'm working to keep my system nice and quiet. So far it's working Nice plan. Makes sense. However, I don't care at all about the noise and I really have no categories small enough to segregate to single drives with 29TB of data on 34TB array.
October 14, 20178 yr Just now, jonesy8485 said: I thought HDD performance suffered when they were closer to max capacity. Is this not true or is it negligible for my usage type? Not as much of a problem with XFS as it was with ReiserFS. You may not even notice it. Also that was only for WRITEs to the drives not reads. I write to the drives once and read many. That is until I have to rearrange to get more space anyway.
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