jonesy8485 Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 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! Quote Link to comment
BRiT Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 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...) Quote Link to comment
BobPhoenix Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 I only move things around if a drive runs out of space and I need more for files in other directories. Quote Link to comment
DZMM Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 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 Quote Link to comment
jonesy8485 Posted October 14, 2017 Author Share Posted October 14, 2017 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! Quote Link to comment
jonesy8485 Posted October 14, 2017 Author Share Posted October 14, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment
BobPhoenix Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 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. Quote Link to comment
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