November 19, 20205 yr unRAID 6.9.0b35 Parity - 4TB Disk 1 - 796GB Free, 4TB Disk 2 - 826GB Free, 4TB Disk 3 - 1.23TB Free, 4TB Disk 4 - 1.76TB Free, 4TB Disk 5 - 1.72TB Free, 4TB Cache Pool - 2x 250GB My understanding is based on the fact that I am running drives in the array of equal size, the high water level for a 4TB would be: 2TB, 1TB, 500GB, 250GB etc.. However as you can see; drives 1 and 2 seem to be continuously being written to; moreso than the other drives. All my shares include all disks; no disk exclusions etc so im at a loss as to why this is happening.
November 19, 20205 yr Community Expert What do you have for the Split Level settings on the relevant shares? Split level will over-ride Allocation method if they conflict.
November 19, 20205 yr Community Expert Just now, Trunkz said: Split-level is set to split the top level as required. That would mean that once a folder has been created under the top level, all files for that folder (and sub-folders) are constrained to the drive where the folder was first created.
November 19, 20205 yr Author OK. Lets take the TV share for example: TV\Bob\Season 1 TV\Bob\Season 2 TV\Fred\Season 1 TV\Fred\Season 2 I would expect the TV show 'BOB' and subsequent seasons/subfolders to be on Disk1, and the TV show 'FRED' to be on another disk.
November 19, 20205 yr Community Expert It would depend when the folders ‘Bob’ and ‘Fred’ were created. If they both got created initially on disk1 then all subsequent content would also go to disk1 with a Split Level setting of 1.
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