Meph Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Hello! I'm new here. I searched a lot for this and the different methods to fill up the disks. See the picture below. I would want disk 3-5 to recieve some data too. The High-water and Most-free goes after number of GB free on the disks i suppose after testing.. My problem is that it will take a long time for the other disks to fill up. There would be nice with a feature to fill them up %-wise.. Since users with disks with different sizes runs into this "problem" i have... I want to fill up the disks evenly in case the unRAID would fail due to 2 disk failures and i would also like them filled evenly because of disk wear... In the high-water case, and my screenshot below the disk3-5 would not start to fill up until disk 1-2 are 87,5% full... Quote Link to comment
Meph Posted November 20, 2017 Author Share Posted November 20, 2017 The mode "most-free" does count the free GB and not how free the disk is %-wise i guess from testing... So for unRAID setups with disks with big size difference there will be a problem like this.. Quote Link to comment
tdallen Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 From prior experience, I can tell you that the path of least resistance is to go with High Water and not worry about how unRAID fills up the disks. I know that's not the answer you wanted, but hey - having all your disks fail at the same time due to even wear would be really inconvenient... Rather than trying to make unRAID work the way you want, if you are worried about two disks failing it's a great idea to work on your backup strategy. 1 Quote Link to comment
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