Timestamps 0:24 Intro 1:03 Download Share 4:30 Movies Share 9:28 TV Share 9:50 Disk Usage 10:45 High Writes Share 11:37 Protected(Redundancy) Share 12:42 Final Thoughts As always, thanks Ed.
I just built my home server after filling up a 2-bay and then an added 4-bay server. I finally decided to do my own and give it plenty of space. I have never used unraid, docker, or vms do this has been very good for someone like me with some computer knowledge but not much with servers. I did buy 2 NMVE, 1TB drives, and 2 SSG, 2TB drives to use for cache since I had seen this was a way to speed up the server. Thanks for these videos. Very helpful and I don't feel like I am starting on my own.
Some of the points stated here, I personally would have overlooked due to keeping things simple, but man it makes so much sense when broken down. Another great video man!
Hey Spaceinvader You are a hero. Without your videos I wouldn't be able to setup my beloved Unraid System. Thank you very much! Please keep up your amazing work.
I only 'discovered' UNRAID a month ago and have been following many of your videos. I did just have a d'oh moment when i realised i have made a few newbie errors, not unrecoverable, but certainly i have more learning to do. Looking forward to the next video, keep up the excellent work!
Senior members & developers from unraid community will provide you necessary support for your case. Make use of forum under appropriate thread. You will love unraid.
I'm going to try to not do too much mental gymnastics here. Alternatively for downloads you can have a HDD pool as a write cache share set to only, the media share SSD cache enabled, and within your download clients have it keep incomplete downloads on the Write cache before moving to the Media share (SSD). This step defragments the file and makes outbound I/O response time quicker. Also means when you go to adjust their file names etc they respond faster, while reducing the wear on your SSD without slowing down your download. I also use my write cache share for my games lib for many reason first being that writing 20,000 tiny files per game doesn't go down so well with dual parity. Hope this helps!
Great video's as always. I have learned a lot from all your unraid video's. I now have 2 unraid servers. My main one & one for backup. I have tried other solutions which don't need my needs unraid does.
Hi Space invaders, great content. I have a quick question, would you mind making a tutorial about best way to setup cache in the new unraid 7 beta, in particualr how to setup cache for downloads related to media share in the array. You probably already know but in beta 7 we have exclusive shares and we do not have as much options as in v6 regarding cache, not its either cache as primary or as secondary. Thanks
Great videos....followed your video on setting up shares for use with Sonarr and Radarr a few years ago....it looks like the folder structure has changed a bit, and I was wondering if you were going to put out a video on how to migrate to the new folder structure. Thanks
The so called move isn't a real move but a copy + delete. What results actually in a longer time to import the movie in to Radarr (your actual movie library). So if you really want a speed improvement it's better to setup another share method, what team Radarr and Sonarr even suggest to use. This way you get instant moves (also called atomic moves) or even hardlinks when using torrents.
Hi Alexander , yeah that method is good for sure. But personally I prefer to have the files physically move. I want the file to download on a pool device then physically move to the array. I dont want it to stay on the cache. The limiting factor for hardlinks is because they link the name to the inode it doesnt work across filesystems so cant be used between disks on the server.
@@SpaceinvaderOne hardlinks and instant moves doesn't works if you use separate volumes. But it does work with one main share and let the mover do for what it is made. Move stuff during the quiet hours or at night to your array. With usenet it works out of the box. With torrents it's a bit more work. But still possible if you use your SSD as incomplete folder and then move it to your array to your complete folder. Or what I do with a user script that stops the running torrents of the last x days so it can be moved to the array and still keep your hardlinks working. With the major advantage you don't have double file usage. Especially these days that allot off people prefer 4k
@@SpaceinvaderOne For it to work you have to use one main share for downloads and Media. Create sub folders accordingly which you probably already know and it works much better and hardly any disk IO at all from doing it. Almost Instant imports etc as its not copying and actually moving files.
Great video and very well explained. But one thing I don't think was covered. If you assign multiple drives to a user share and fill-up as method, will Unraid spin up all drives for that share if a file residing on only one of the disks is accessed?
Hey spaceinvader, around 5:20 you mentioned dockers that download files for you, you mentioned 2 but I cannot make out 1 of them. You mentioned deluge and NCB gex or gets when I search NCB Gex or gets I cannot find anything. What is this one called?
I appreciate the new series! If you're going to continue some the media share coverage, could you spend some time on the best way to manage game libraries on the NAS too? Mainly for Steam games, but I hear that Origin can be finicky.
Hey there. I have a server running for quite some time. Learning about "Fill up" and reasons to organize shares in this video. I have TBs of data existing spread across all the drives on my server. If I choose Fill Up and specific HDDs for each share now. Will unraid automatically move them later? or will that only work for future data?
I had made my setup work like this, but I noticed when I had some torrents auto pause due to lack of incoming data, the mover pushed all these to the disk instead of leaving them be.
Thanks for this great overview! What happens if I decide later on to limit a share to one drive that was not limited before? So currently it is using disk A + disk B. Now I want it to only use disk B. Will unraid itself move the data from A to B when I change the share settings, or do I have to do it myself?
When creating your "data" and "nextcloud data" shares, you chose to exclude Disk 2 and 3 because they were the "movies" and "tv shows" shares. But if I add another disk in the future because I need more space for "movies", will I be able to include that disk for "movies" and exclude it for "data" before "data" writes anything to it?
question regarding nextcloud and cache. If you have 100,000 files at 5kb each, and 1 50GB file... will it be smart enough to write the large file to storage and keep the 100,000 files in cache? or does it go by age/frequency of use, etc?
If I put specific share on only specific drives, what happens if that drive fail? Can I just put in a replacement drive and everything will rebuild and no data is lost?
I have an issue. I recenty got changed from Windows to MacOS problem I am now having is I cannot search shares via finder. Like i used to be able to do in explorer
Great video, i love how easy you explain everything, are you thinking about doing one about setting up Win10 VMs on 6.9.x detailing all the new changes for hardware passthrough, GPU, NVME drives, etc? Thanks and I hope you keep doing these great series, cheers!
If I had not set my shares up this way from the get go, how can I move, say, the video files that are currently distributed among disks to a single disk? Can I just go in with mc and move them from the disks into the one disk and then setup the allocation method?
Can you provide an example to install transmission in the new method? Adding the Folder Downloads, but under Container Path: /Downloads, you need to choose the path of /mnt/user/downloads/, or I'm wrong.
So I plan on using unraid from pretty much just storage, I have other devices in my homelab for plex and downloading isos and linux torrents, would it them make sense to use an SSD cache for my data to get the large files onto the array faster and just set up the movers to move more frequently??
trashguide and ibracorp setup only one share: data, so hardlinks are easier to create. How would you say does your setup compare? If I read the trash guide, yours isnt working with hardlinks...So which guide gives best performance?
Great video but I have a question. In the beginning you may not have as many disks. So when you use the Fill Up option for movies and TV shows for disk 1 and 2 and add a third one it'll be just the same as using high water. TV shows and movies on all disks. Right?
Great video! This series is really helping me setup my first Unraid server, however I was hoping for some info on split levels. In your example it wouldn't matter as you just have all your tv shows on one drive, but from what I've been reading a Split Level 3 would be best as you can keep each TV show on one disk...I think? Any thoughts?
This is kind of how I tried to set mine up, but I got the split level wrong and all of my shows are on one disk now. Need to work on splitting them out a bit more, but don't want to lose my current library setup. Unfortunately, I'm not good enough yet with moving stuff around on the unraid disks to really play around with it.
Can you do a video on iommu pass through and with a focus on fixing errors? I’ve passed 1 nvme ssd through successfully, but the 2nd drives check box is greyed out. Any help would be appreciated
I understand what you said by only writing movies and tv etc to only one disk, but for best performance wouldn’t this cause you to lose performance as it now wouldn’t be reading the disks in parallel?
Very good video and overview of different use cases! 👍 But how would you set up a share that is a place zu store video files for editing? (80% read operations)
Your videos are always very helpful. I have 1 question though. You delete your docker.img and you vm file so it would recreate it on the cache disk. I am in the same boat, but I really don't want to loose everything I already setup. Is it safe to just disable docker and vm support like you show. Then from cmd mv the file from /mnt/disk1 to /mnt/cache? Then reenable the 2 services and it is just like it never happened? I can't seam to get a straight answer on forums.
I just started populating my unRaid server (3 weeks in), can I follow your recommendations mid-fill and will unRaid balance the media shares as you have them set or is that just for new data?
I put my movies folder on serveral disks, but put my ‘split level’ in that way, that all parts of the same movie are on the same disk. PS: thanks again for the nice video!
Ok..so i have a fix common problems error that a share named disc3 is a reserved user share. Share Disk3 is identically named to a disc share. I dont see this in my shares anywhere. Can you make a video on this error? Would be much appreciated.
The min free space still confuses me. If a file is too big for the freespace on a drive and the min free space it set to 0, what will unraid do? I thought it wrote only whole files to drives so wouldn't it still push it to whatever drive it will fit on? Or will it try and fail to write the giant file because free space is set to low?
Hi thanks for your question. If a file is too big for the free space available on any single drive in an Unraid array and the minimum free space threshold is set to 0, Unraid will attempt to write the file to each drive in turn until it finds one with enough free space to store the entire file. However, if a drive runs out of free space during the write, the write will fail, and the process will move on to the next drive. This can lead to inefficient writes, additional time taken to find enough free space, and extra wear on the drives. It's better to set the minimum free space threshold to the size of the largest file you're likely to write to the share to avoid these issues. Obviously this becomes more of a problem when you have disks in the array that are full or close to being full. Hope that helps.
So I'm setting up unraid for the first time, but I already have many terabytes of data I plan to store on it. I realise with this setup style that your capacity for your movies and tv shares is limited by the single disk you've assigned to it, rather than being able to leverage the free space on other disks. If I plan on having a single share contain more data than a single drive I own can hold, would this still be an appropriate way to setup the share? For example, if I have 10TB of data for a share, but I only own 6 or 8 TB hard disks, would it be more appropriate to allow shares to store across multiple disks? Furthermore, is the reason behind your decision to limit your share to a single disk simply to reduce wear/tear and power consumption?, or is there more to it than that?
I'm also confused by this. I'm trying out UnRAID after over a decade using other disk pooling solutions (first WHSv1, then DrivePool and DriveBender), and I've never had to "manage" individual disks before. Why not just let UnRAID manage the disks?
@@MatthewHaubrich So I've been using Unraid for the five months since my comment, and I haven't really used the share-limiting feature. I have all my disks available for most of my shares, and let the high-water system work out where the data should go. I do consider the file-splitting level for each share, if it applies specifically to the data within it. Otherwise Unraid just handles it with the high-water algorithm. So the answer that I didn't receive to my question is that specifying individual disks for individual shares is not pointless, but largely unnecessary.
If you want to use the hardlinks feature in radarr/sonarr this is not a great way to setup the share. Downloads and Movies needs to be in the same share and not cache enabled.
i would suggest doing a video on midnight commander rather than krusader. when i started out with unraid i got reccomended to use krusader which i did for a couple of months. i was never really happy with its performance, and it was cumbersome to start the docker and enter the UI whenever there was a file to move. When i learned of midnight commander i completely stopped using krusader, and it hasn't been installed on my server for over a year. since MC can be ran from the terminal or over SSH i believe it is a much better option. Although i do reckon that krusader is a very good entry-level for working with dockers and permissions and such within unraid.
I think for starting out, Krusader is good to start with. However, just looking at midnight commander briefly, it doesn't look very user-friendly. For me personally, krusader is always on, so I don't have to start the docker and you can favourite it/use organizr to access it quickly...it's user friendly and fast enough for me.
"It's important to plan your shares and how you want to set them up right at the start" Here I am with my 5+ year old 16 Disk array mostly set to high water and included disks set to all. ...Shit
I am trying to setup my share settings but my options are not the same as yours. My share settings do not give me the option of 'use cache pool' for example. Whats going on????
unraid changed how this works in the newest version, it's something I've struggled with understanding but this should help. Use cache pool: No (array only) --- (remain on array, never move) --- Primary Storage: Array --- Secondary Storage: None --- Mover Action: [not used] Use cache pool: Yes --- (move from cache to array, when mover runs) --- Primary Storage: Cache --- Secondary Storage: Array --- Mover Action: Cache > Array Use cache pool: Prefer --- (move from array to cache, unless full, but when empty move it) --- Primary Storage: Cache --- Secondary Storage: Array --- Mover Action: Cache < Array Use cache pool: Only (cache only) --- (remain on cache, never move) --- Primary Storage: Cache --- Secondary Storage: None --- Mover Action: [not used]
I forgot to mention that spaceinvadersones unraid videos are pretty useless for unraid 6.12.6, kinda wish he would make a new video on this, only way to follow this would be to roll back to an older version of unraid then upgrade once you've configured everything, which realistically isn't worth it.
As far as I know you can't hard link across shares. You would need to download directly to the share where you archive your media and hard link from your downloads folder to your archive folder.
Can anyone guide me out on how to setup pihole with my openvpn? I have setup and running both individually on unraid. How to set dns of pihole to openvpn on unraid?
I followed this video and looked around for info on how to use the new share settings, after setting everything up it didn't seem to work the way he described, so now instead of having my movies/tv as array only, I have it as "cache > array" as it's the only way I could get this to work.
Well, I have to say I'm a little bit disappointed... when I heard the new version had multiple pools, I immediately thought there was going to be a lot more storage capacity. Is there a way to use these new pools simply as safe storage ???
Hi Spaceinvader, this is the situation: I already have a share named MOVIES with the high-water option enabled. Is it still possible to change it to the FILL-UP option so all the movies can be on 1 drive?
It's possible to change the setting at any time but that won't move the existing media. However there is a plugin called unBALANCE which should move the files to one disk. (I haven't tested this yet though)
I have a Problem with 6.9.2 - I have two gpu´s - GTX 1060 and GTX 970 - the GTX 970 is in a VM - for slicer 3d printer things and a gtx1060 for transcoding etc. When i shutdown the VM with the GTX970 - the GPU are not release from the VM - what can i do ?
Question, I have 4 drives, after this movie i put disk 3 and 4 for movies and disk1 and 2 for Series. Before i saw this tutorial i was copying movies to my movies share which was allowed to use all disks. So all my movies are on disk 1. After applying the new settings, the movies are still on disk 1. Will the system move these automatically? What actions can I take?
Yes, this with the multiple cache pools does make it more complex and certainly if you're a light user, you wouldn't need it but do you want it? Possibly - even if you're a light user, you might take comfort in the fact that you've decked out the multi pool cache feature so that if you were to be using a VM AND downloading something AND be using docker services, you won't notice a slowdown while if you did that all on one SSD, something might have to give, even though the chances of that happening is low..if you're a light user.
You can start simple, with no cache, or one cache. then take your time and grow into it, as you get more familiar w unraid. Dockers are the same. you can start with none or one. VMs the same. I recommend start simple unless you know unix aready.
Some of us new users desperately need a sort of all out unraid gaming tutorial.. I want to use unraid for all my game files. The more I research, the more convoluted it gets. Idk if I should be using lancache and just keeping the games on each pc or creating a game files share and somehow directing every pc to that. I just started w unraid not too long ago and I have done nothing with it besides throw all my downloaded movies onto an SMB share to be accessed with VLC lol. I love videos like this though. I have major tech OCD. It's already made me want to just throw away this whole server and start from scratch. Full on network security has been my other main concern ever since my kids started getting into downloading crap through my network.
The Docker Guide at Servarr seems better for setting up shares and folders. Why not follow that guide? Then novices like me can follow instructions easier. If we could get more leaders like you and Servarr to do it the same for all the various tutorials for all the apps: sonarr, radarr, lidarr, nzbget, sabnzb, emby, plex, etc. - then all the tutorials will complement each other.
If only Unraid 6.9 was stable enough for general use. :( Many of us had it fall on its face and had to revert back to 6.8.3. It’s the elephant in the room you seem to be ignoring however helpful your excellent advice is about shares.
I liked the audio on this one because the music background was very low, so i could hear the voice OK. A better mic might be a bit better, but totally fine as is.
Timestamps
0:24 Intro
1:03 Download Share
4:30 Movies Share
9:28 TV Share
9:50 Disk Usage
10:45 High Writes Share
11:37 Protected(Redundancy) Share
12:42 Final Thoughts
As always, thanks Ed.
Thanks very much for making the timestamps Zeflun. Much appreciated :)
@@SpaceinvaderOne Thank you. A lot of the community depends on these videos to be able to keep doing what they love. As always we all appreciate it.
Wish I had this video when I setup my main server two years ago. It’s now got me thinking! Awesome work as ever Ed. Keep them coming.
Same here, i now have to plan how to re-create my shares and move the files from the old to the new shares...
@@DiskyToy need to create a disk pool for vm’s from my existing nvme using unassigned devices for vm. Hope @spaceinvaderone shows how to do that.
I just built my home server after filling up a 2-bay and then an added 4-bay server. I finally decided to do my own and give it plenty of space. I have never used unraid, docker, or vms do this has been very good for someone like me with some computer knowledge but not much with servers. I did buy 2 NMVE, 1TB drives, and 2 SSG, 2TB drives to use for cache since I had seen this was a way to speed up the server. Thanks for these videos. Very helpful and I don't feel like I am starting on my own.
Some of the points stated here, I personally would have overlooked due to keeping things simple, but man it makes so much sense when broken down. Another great video man!
Hey Spaceinvader
You are a hero. Without your videos I wouldn't be able to setup my beloved Unraid System. Thank you very much! Please keep up your amazing work.
Are you a wizard? This is exactly what I was looking for today! Thanks!
I only 'discovered' UNRAID a month ago and have been following many of your videos. I did just have a d'oh moment when i realised i have made a few newbie errors, not unrecoverable, but certainly i have more learning to do. Looking forward to the next video, keep up the excellent work!
Senior members & developers from unraid community will provide you necessary support for your case. Make use of forum under appropriate thread. You will love unraid.
Another excellent video. So glad you are doing this series and finally getting some support for all your hard work.
Very easy to follow and makes complete sense. Thanks.
I needed this back on version 5, my unraid is all kinds of not the best setup. Great video.
I'm going to try to not do too much mental gymnastics here. Alternatively for downloads you can have a HDD pool as a write cache share set to only, the media share SSD cache enabled, and within your download clients have it keep incomplete downloads on the Write cache before moving to the Media share (SSD). This step defragments the file and makes outbound I/O response time quicker. Also means when you go to adjust their file names etc they respond faster, while reducing the wear on your SSD without slowing down your download.
I also use my write cache share for my games lib for many reason first being that writing 20,000 tiny files per game doesn't go down so well with dual parity.
Hope this helps!
So how many separate caches is that and what capacities for each?
Super helpful to a new Unraid-er. Subscribed.
Glad it was useful. Thanks for the sub and thanks for watching :)
Great video's as always. I have learned a lot from all your unraid video's. I now have 2 unraid servers. My main one & one for backup. I have tried other solutions which don't need my needs unraid does.
Hi Space invaders, great content. I have a quick question, would you mind making a tutorial about best way to setup cache in the new unraid 7 beta, in particualr how to setup cache for downloads related to media share in the array. You probably already know but in beta 7 we have exclusive shares and we do not have as much options as in v6 regarding cache, not its either cache as primary or as secondary. Thanks
Great videos....followed your video on setting up shares for use with Sonarr and Radarr a few years ago....it looks like the folder structure has changed a bit, and I was wondering if you were going to put out a video on how to migrate to the new folder structure. Thanks
The so called move isn't a real move but a copy + delete.
What results actually in a longer time to import the movie in to Radarr (your actual movie library).
So if you really want a speed improvement it's better to setup another share method, what team Radarr and Sonarr even suggest to use.
This way you get instant moves (also called atomic moves) or even hardlinks when using torrents.
Hi Alexander , yeah that method is good for sure. But personally I prefer to have the files physically move. I want the file to download on a pool device then physically move to the array. I dont want it to stay on the cache. The limiting factor for hardlinks is because they link the name to the inode it doesnt work across filesystems so cant be used between disks on the server.
@@SpaceinvaderOne hardlinks and instant moves doesn't works if you use separate volumes.
But it does work with one main share and let the mover do for what it is made.
Move stuff during the quiet hours or at night to your array.
With usenet it works out of the box.
With torrents it's a bit more work.
But still possible if you use your SSD as incomplete folder and then move it to your array to your complete folder.
Or what I do with a user script that stops the running torrents of the last x days so it can be moved to the array and still keep your hardlinks working.
With the major advantage you don't have double file usage.
Especially these days that allot off people prefer 4k
@@AlexanderWerginz Yes its much better this way, its actually better for performance, hardly any disk IO and things actually move rather than copy.
@@SpaceinvaderOne For it to work you have to use one main share for downloads and Media. Create sub folders accordingly which you probably already know and it works much better and hardly any disk IO at all from doing it. Almost Instant imports etc as its not copying and actually moving files.
@@porkie160278 we've covered this in a video if interested :)
Great explonation and suggested use cases!!
Great video series on 6.9! When are you going back to the CoreVideo series to continue the with cloudflare and I think proxy manager was next?
Great video and very well explained. But one thing I don't think was covered. If you assign multiple drives to a user share and fill-up as method, will Unraid spin up all drives for that share if a file residing on only one of the disks is accessed?
Hey spaceinvader, around 5:20 you mentioned dockers that download files for you, you mentioned 2 but I cannot make out 1 of them. You mentioned deluge and NCB gex or gets when I search NCB Gex or gets I cannot find anything. What is this one called?
It'd be nice if they let you set nicknames for disks so you'd know which ones your using for the different shares.
The shares can have any name. But keeping physical disks as "disk" makes more sense to me.
I appreciate the new series! If you're going to continue some the media share coverage, could you spend some time on the best way to manage game libraries on the NAS too? Mainly for Steam games, but I hear that Origin can be finicky.
Hey there. I have a server running for quite some time. Learning about "Fill up" and reasons to organize shares in this video. I have TBs of data existing spread across all the drives on my server. If I choose Fill Up and specific HDDs for each share now. Will unraid automatically move them later? or will that only work for future data?
I'd like to know this as well.
I'd like to know this as well!!!
Did anyone find out the answer?
great question, I also want to know.
No it will not move what's already in place on different drives, only new data added after you change it. To do that manually you can use unBALANCE.
This was a great video, thank you very much.
Great guide, thank you !!!
I had made my setup work like this, but I noticed when I had some torrents auto pause due to lack of incoming data, the mover pushed all these to the disk instead of leaving them be.
Thanks for this great overview! What happens if I decide later on to limit a share to one drive that was not limited before? So currently it is using disk A + disk B. Now I want it to only use disk B. Will unraid itself move the data from A to B when I change the share settings, or do I have to do it myself?
I am wondering this same thing. Does it move the data or does it just use disk B going forward but leave everything where it is currently.
When creating your "data" and "nextcloud data" shares, you chose to exclude Disk 2 and 3 because they were the "movies" and "tv shows" shares. But if I add another disk in the future because I need more space for "movies", will I be able to include that disk for "movies" and exclude it for "data" before "data" writes anything to it?
question regarding nextcloud and cache. If you have 100,000 files at 5kb each, and 1 50GB file... will it be smart enough to write the large file to storage and keep the 100,000 files in cache? or does it go by age/frequency of use, etc?
So Spacey, when are we going to work together? 👻 At least we helped you shake up your style a little.
If I put specific share on only specific drives, what happens if that drive fail? Can I just put in a replacement drive and everything will rebuild and no data is lost?
I have an issue. I recenty got changed from Windows to MacOS problem I am now having is I cannot search shares via finder. Like i used to be able to do in explorer
Great video, i love how easy you explain everything, are you thinking about doing one about setting up Win10 VMs on 6.9.x detailing all the new changes for hardware passthrough, GPU, NVME drives, etc?
Thanks and I hope you keep doing these great series, cheers!
If I had not set my shares up this way from the get go, how can I move, say, the video files that are currently distributed among disks to a single disk? Can I just go in with mc and move them from the disks into the one disk and then setup the allocation method?
Yeah I'm in year 3 of my server how would I change to doing it like this?
Can you provide an example to install transmission in the new method? Adding the Folder Downloads, but under Container Path: /Downloads, you need to choose the path of /mnt/user/downloads/, or I'm wrong.
So I plan on using unraid from pretty much just storage, I have other devices in my homelab for plex and downloading isos and linux torrents, would it them make sense to use an SSD cache for my data to get the large files onto the array faster and just set up the movers to move more frequently??
trashguide and ibracorp setup only one share: data, so hardlinks are easier to create. How would you say does your setup compare? If I read the trash guide, yours isnt working with hardlinks...So which guide gives best performance?
Great video but I have a question. In the beginning you may not have as many disks. So when you use the Fill Up option for movies and TV shows for disk 1 and 2 and add a third one it'll be just the same as using high water. TV shows and movies on all disks. Right?
Great video! This series is really helping me setup my first Unraid server, however I was hoping for some info on split levels. In your example it wouldn't matter as you just have all your tv shows on one drive, but from what I've been reading a Split Level 3 would be best as you can keep each TV show on one disk...I think? Any thoughts?
This is kind of how I tried to set mine up, but I got the split level wrong and all of my shows are on one disk now. Need to work on splitting them out a bit more, but don't want to lose my current library setup.
Unfortunately, I'm not good enough yet with moving stuff around on the unraid disks to really play around with it.
Can you do a video on iommu pass through and with a focus on fixing errors?
I’ve passed 1 nvme ssd through successfully, but the 2nd drives check box is greyed out.
Any help would be appreciated
I understand what you said by only writing movies and tv etc to only one disk, but for best performance wouldn’t this cause you to lose performance as it now wouldn’t be reading the disks in parallel?
clean install and my smb wont show do you have any ideas
Very good video and overview of different use cases! 👍
But how would you set up a share that is a place zu store video files for editing? (80% read operations)
Your videos are always very helpful. I have 1 question though. You delete your docker.img and you vm file so it would recreate it on the cache disk. I am in the same boat, but I really don't want to loose everything I already setup. Is it safe to just disable docker and vm support like you show. Then from cmd mv the file from /mnt/disk1 to /mnt/cache? Then reenable the 2 services and it is just like it never happened? I can't seam to get a straight answer on forums.
I just started populating my unRaid server (3 weeks in), can I follow your recommendations mid-fill and will unRaid balance the media shares as you have them set or is that just for new data?
I am also curious about this, save me some time trying to shuffle. I know about unBalance but want to be lazy/let unraid do it smarter
I put my movies folder on serveral disks, but put my ‘split level’ in that way, that all parts of the same movie are on the same disk.
PS: thanks again for the nice video!
Ok..so i have a fix common problems error that a share named disc3 is a reserved user share. Share Disk3 is identically named to a disc share. I dont see this in my shares anywhere. Can you make a video on this error? Would be much appreciated.
This is number 5 in the series on Unraid 6.9. Where is number 6? I spent a long time looking for it.😀
spin down for disk is a good thing? or i should put never and let it go always?
I have case sensitive copy error in windows smb share. And adobe autsave doesnt work
The min free space still confuses me. If a file is too big for the freespace on a drive and the min free space it set to 0, what will unraid do? I thought it wrote only whole files to drives so wouldn't it still push it to whatever drive it will fit on? Or will it try and fail to write the giant file because free space is set to low?
Hi thanks for your question. If a file is too big for the free space available on any single drive in an Unraid array and the minimum free space threshold is set to 0, Unraid will attempt to write the file to each drive in turn until it finds one with enough free space to store the entire file. However, if a drive runs out of free space during the write, the write will fail, and the process will move on to the next drive. This can lead to inefficient writes, additional time taken to find enough free space, and extra wear on the drives. It's better to set the minimum free space threshold to the size of the largest file you're likely to write to the share to avoid these issues. Obviously this becomes more of a problem when you have disks in the array that are full or close to being full. Hope that helps.
So I'm setting up unraid for the first time, but I already have many terabytes of data I plan to store on it. I realise with this setup style that your capacity for your movies and tv shares is limited by the single disk you've assigned to it, rather than being able to leverage the free space on other disks. If I plan on having a single share contain more data than a single drive I own can hold, would this still be an appropriate way to setup the share?
For example, if I have 10TB of data for a share, but I only own 6 or 8 TB hard disks, would it be more appropriate to allow shares to store across multiple disks?
Furthermore, is the reason behind your decision to limit your share to a single disk simply to reduce wear/tear and power consumption?, or is there more to it than that?
I'm also confused by this. I'm trying out UnRAID after over a decade using other disk pooling solutions (first WHSv1, then DrivePool and DriveBender), and I've never had to "manage" individual disks before. Why not just let UnRAID manage the disks?
@@MatthewHaubrich So I've been using Unraid for the five months since my comment, and I haven't really used the share-limiting feature. I have all my disks available for most of my shares, and let the high-water system work out where the data should go. I do consider the file-splitting level for each share, if it applies specifically to the data within it. Otherwise Unraid just handles it with the high-water algorithm.
So the answer that I didn't receive to my question is that specifying individual disks for individual shares is not pointless, but largely unnecessary.
If you want to use the hardlinks feature in radarr/sonarr this is not a great way to setup the share. Downloads and Movies needs to be in the same share and not cache enabled.
great video👍
Great video, I'm a noob, just 1 week with my first unraid server. How can i passtrough or give an ipv6 to a docker, for example plex docker??
i would suggest doing a video on midnight commander rather than krusader.
when i started out with unraid i got reccomended to use krusader which i did for a couple of months.
i was never really happy with its performance, and it was cumbersome to start the docker and enter the UI whenever there was a file to move.
When i learned of midnight commander i completely stopped using krusader, and it hasn't been installed on my server for over a year.
since MC can be ran from the terminal or over SSH i believe it is a much better option.
Although i do reckon that krusader is a very good entry-level for working with dockers and permissions and such within unraid.
I think for starting out, Krusader is good to start with. However, just looking at midnight commander briefly, it doesn't look very user-friendly. For me personally, krusader is always on, so I don't have to start the docker and you can favourite it/use organizr to access it quickly...it's user friendly and fast enough for me.
Hi, I had problem when I will logon to my URS I get "Too many invalid login attempts" what to do??
"It's important to plan your shares and how you want to set them up right at the start" Here I am with my 5+ year old 16 Disk array mostly set to high water and included disks set to all.
...Shit
hey mate, hot topic atm could you do a A-Z guide on how to use unraid for chia mining? :)
I am trying to setup my share settings but my options are not the same as yours. My share settings do not give me the option of 'use cache pool' for example. Whats going on????
unraid changed how this works in the newest version, it's something I've struggled with understanding but this should help.
Use cache pool: No (array only)
--- (remain on array, never move)
--- Primary Storage: Array
--- Secondary Storage: None
--- Mover Action: [not used]
Use cache pool: Yes
--- (move from cache to array, when mover runs)
--- Primary Storage: Cache
--- Secondary Storage: Array
--- Mover Action: Cache > Array
Use cache pool: Prefer
--- (move from array to cache, unless full, but when empty move it)
--- Primary Storage: Cache
--- Secondary Storage: Array
--- Mover Action: Cache < Array
Use cache pool: Only (cache only)
--- (remain on cache, never move)
--- Primary Storage: Cache
--- Secondary Storage: None
--- Mover Action: [not used]
I forgot to mention that spaceinvadersones unraid videos are pretty useless for unraid 6.12.6, kinda wish he would make a new video on this, only way to follow this would be to roll back to an older version of unraid then upgrade once you've configured everything, which realistically isn't worth it.
I use the zfs plugin, any way to be able to use the zfs pool for the shares
Will this configuration be able to use hard links and atomic move in the *arr apps?
As far as I know you can't hard link across shares. You would need to download directly to the share where you archive your media and hard link from your downloads folder to your archive folder.
Thank you!
Can anyone guide me out on how to setup pihole with my openvpn? I have setup and running both individually on unraid. How to set dns of pihole to openvpn on unraid?
Would be nice to see new series with 6.12.4 and just Plex and Nzbget. Its getting too complexed in this vid for newbies.
I followed this video and looked around for info on how to use the new share settings, after setting everything up it didn't seem to work the way he described, so now instead of having my movies/tv as array only, I have it as "cache > array" as it's the only way I could get this to work.
Well, I have to say I'm a little bit disappointed... when I heard the new version had multiple pools, I immediately thought there was going to be a lot more storage capacity.
Is there a way to use these new pools simply as safe storage ???
Hi Spaceinvader, this is the situation: I already have a share named MOVIES with the high-water option enabled. Is it still possible to change it to the FILL-UP option so all the movies can be on 1 drive?
It's possible to change the setting at any time but that won't move the existing media. However there is a plugin called unBALANCE which should move the files to one disk. (I haven't tested this yet though)
@@RoryIsNotACabbage If there is someone who can verify and test this, that would be great :D
Yes just use unbalance to move the data to the disks you want then change the share setting afterwards
I have a Problem with 6.9.2 - I have two gpu´s - GTX 1060 and GTX 970 - the GTX 970 is in a VM - for slicer 3d printer things and a gtx1060 for transcoding etc. When i shutdown the VM with the GTX970 - the GPU are not release from the VM - what can i do ?
Sell the GPUs on eBay and buy a yacht!
i solved my problem xD
and good idea - i need a new house and car.
Question,
I have 4 drives, after this movie i put disk 3 and 4 for movies and disk1 and 2 for Series.
Before i saw this tutorial i was copying movies to my movies share which was allowed to use all disks.
So all my movies are on disk 1.
After applying the new settings, the movies are still on disk 1.
Will the system move these automatically?
What actions can I take?
Doesn't this sort of thing make unraid and servers more complex? What if you just want to stick with just 1 m.2 ssd for VMs, docker and downloads?
Yes, this with the multiple cache pools does make it more complex and certainly if you're a light user, you wouldn't need it but do you want it? Possibly - even if you're a light user, you might take comfort in the fact that you've decked out the multi pool cache feature so that if you were to be using a VM AND downloading something AND be using docker services, you won't notice a slowdown while if you did that all on one SSD, something might have to give, even though the chances of that happening is low..if you're a light user.
You can start simple, with no cache, or one cache. then take your time and grow into it, as you get more familiar w unraid. Dockers are the same. you can start with none or one. VMs the same. I recommend start simple unless you know unix aready.
sadly i did all wrong and now the disks sstarting getting full
Some of us new users desperately need a sort of all out unraid gaming tutorial.. I want to use unraid for all my game files. The more I research, the more convoluted it gets. Idk if I should be using lancache and just keeping the games on each pc or creating a game files share and somehow directing every pc to that. I just started w unraid not too long ago and I have done nothing with it besides throw all my downloaded movies onto an SMB share to be accessed with VLC lol.
I love videos like this though. I have major tech OCD. It's already made me want to just throw away this whole server and start from scratch.
Full on network security has been my other main concern ever since my kids started getting into downloading crap through my network.
Funny how Unraid is the true NAS OS that is more ZFS than "ZFS". Im not having great time with TrueNAS after Synology
The Docker Guide at Servarr seems better for setting up shares and folders. Why not follow that guide? Then novices like me can follow instructions easier. If we could get more leaders like you and Servarr to do it the same for all the various tutorials for all the apps: sonarr, radarr, lidarr, nzbget, sabnzb, emby, plex, etc. - then all the tutorials will complement each other.
If only Unraid 6.9 was stable enough for general use. :( Many of us had it fall on its face and had to revert back to 6.8.3. It’s the elephant in the room you seem to be ignoring however helpful your excellent advice is about shares.
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Good videos. Bad audio.
I liked the audio on this one because the music background was very low, so i could hear the voice OK. A better mic might be a bit better, but totally fine as is.