February 27, 201115 yr Author OK, some news: Disk2 is filling up, great I'm going to order Unraid "Plus" to put a 3rd data disk My transfer rate from internal hard drive to the server is ~22 to 24 MBs Is it normal, or it could be faster and I have to check at something specific in the settings ? (I'm using gigabit network, with DIR 655 routers and Cat 6 cables) Thanks
February 27, 201115 yr OK, some news: Disk2 is filling up, great I'm going to order Unraid "Plus" to put a 3rd data disk My transfer rate from internal hard drive to the server is ~22 to 24 MBs Is it normal, or it could be faster and I have to check at something specific in the settings ? (I'm using gigabit network, with DIR 655 routers and Cat 6 cables) Thanks Your transfer rate is very normal if you have parity enabled and any 5400 RPM drives involved.
February 27, 201115 yr Author Yes, it' s exactly my settings All my disks are 5,900 RPM and I'm using parity was looking at Rajahal thread about cache drive Can I expect ~3x faster speed with a cache drive, even if it's connected on a PCI adapter?
February 27, 201115 yr cache drive is not realy recomended for large amounts of data it will be faster yes, basically it stores the files on a disk with no parity and moves the files later.
February 27, 201115 yr Author You mean large amount of data when transferring, or large amount of data in general on the server?
February 27, 201115 yr transfering large amounts of data, like you would after just building an system
February 28, 201115 yr Author OK, I ordered yesterday the “Plus” license, and I received it the same day (Sunday…great) I placed inside the server my 3rd data disk (Disk 3) that comes from my Netowrk Media Tank (ICY Box) The NMT created 3 partitions at the time of install few years ago..... Should I delete those partitions first on another computer, or Unraid will take care of it at the clearing and formatting phases? Thanks
February 28, 201115 yr OK, I ordered yesterday the “Plus” license, and I received it the same day (Sunday…great) I placed inside the server my 3rd data disk (Disk 3) that comes from my Netowrk Media Tank (ICY Box) The NMT created 3 partitions at the time of install few years ago..... Should I delete those partitions first on another computer, or Unraid will take care of it at the clearing and formatting phases? Thanks Yes, unRAID will clear the partitions, and the entire drive, but it will take the array off-line for many hours while it is being performed. You can eliminate the extended downtime by pre-clearing the disk first, before you add the new drive to the array. It only takes a few minutes to add a pre-cleared disk to an existing array. while a drive is being pre-cleared, the unRAID array is still available for playing media and getting to your files. Recommended practice is to run preclear_disk.sh on the drive first. The preclear_disk.sh script will also exercise the disk to ensure it will not have any previously un-known sector errors. You can find it here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2817.0
February 28, 201115 yr Author Can I do that from the web-gui? I don't want to have to connect keyboard and screen to the server...
February 28, 201115 yr Can I do that from the web-gui? I don't want to have to connect keyboard and screen to the server... You can do it via telnet, from your PC. As far as not having to attach a keyboard/screen, you better hope you do NOT have one of the BIOS that attempt to help you by automatically assigning any new disk as the boot disk. If you do, you will end up needing a keyboard/screen just to reset the server to boot from the USB flash drive.
March 1, 201115 yr Your one split level to high for both Movies split level one will allow movie folders across multiple disks, but keeps files in the same folder on the same disk. TV split level 2 will keep files in a season folder on the same disk but season folder can be put on different disks. at least that's the way I understand it Personally I just access my disk shares and allocate my files manually. You can change splitlevels in between. Splitlevels and allocation method only affect files being copied not files that are already on the disk
March 1, 201115 yr You should start your own thread to ask a question and not to hijack someone else's thread... Peter
March 1, 201115 yr You should start your own thread to ask a question and not to hijack someone else's thread... Peter Heretic, thanks Peter, quite right, removed.
March 8, 201115 yr Author OK, here is more info I have 3 user shares MOVIES (High water, split level = 2) TV SHOWS (High water, split level =1) PHOTOS (high water, Split level =1) Structure is as follow: MOVIES --BluRay --DivX --DVD --Kids TV SHOWS --TV folders -----Seasons PHOTOS --Years folder Since I've added a 2nd disk, is there anything I should change? Thanks I've added a 3rd disk (WD EADS 1.5TB) and it doesn't fill up Here are my settings (see above) For example, I've added the TV shows John Adams, and it didn't go on Disk 3 Is this normal? I think I should put split level = 2 for TV-shows in that case, right? I just want to make sure ......before I change anything on my server
March 9, 201115 yr Read this. I expect disk2 is not full enough yet. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Un-Official_UnRAID_Manual#High_Water Peter
April 8, 201115 yr Author OK, here is more info I have 3 user shares MOVIES (High water, split level = 2) TV SHOWS (High water, split level =1) PHOTOS (high water, Split level =1) Structure is as follow: MOVIES --BluRay --DivX --DVD --Kids TV SHOWS --TV folders -----Seasons PHOTOS --Years folder Since I've added a 2nd disk, is there anything I should change? Thanks I've added a 3rd disk (WD EADS 1.5TB) and it doesn't fill up Here are my settings (see above) For example, I've added the TV shows John Adams, and it didn't go on Disk 3 Is this normal? I think I should put split level = 2 for TV-shows in that case, right? I just want to make sure ......before I change anything on my server Well, now disk1 is 57% and disk2 is 37%, but disk3 still stays empty....!!! Does somebody know why?
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