2011-09-14, 15:54
I have my shares arranged as follows:
Movies share split level is set to 1. Individual movies are forced onto a single disk. Directory structure is:
Movies/Movie Title/Movie Title.mkv
TV share split level is set to 2. Individual seasons are forced onto a single disk. Directory structure is:
TV/Show Name/Season #/Show Name S##E##.mkv
Music share split level is set to 2. Individual albums are forced onto a single disk. Directory structure is:
Music/Artist Name/Album/Title.mp3
For all my shares I have all disks included. All my spindown timers are set to 15 minutes. I also use the most free alocation method with the min free space set at 30000000. The only thing I do that is a little unusual is that when I add a movie to my movie share I manually place it on the disk I want it to be on. So rather than creating a folder in //Tower/Movies I create it in //Tower/disk #/Movies. The reason I do this is so that I can put all my kids movies on one disk and all the grown-up movies onto a different disk. I suppose I could have just created two different shares but I like having all my movies in one share. The reason that I split them up this way is becase I noticed that my disks were being spun up and down a lot on days my kids would watch movies. This was because they would watch a movie that was on disk 1 and then the next movie might be on disk 2. So by putting all their movies onto a single disk now I don't have that problem anymore.
Personally I don't think there is a right or wrong way to setup your network shares. It really depends on your own situation and what makes sense to you.
Movies share split level is set to 1. Individual movies are forced onto a single disk. Directory structure is:
Movies/Movie Title/Movie Title.mkv
TV share split level is set to 2. Individual seasons are forced onto a single disk. Directory structure is:
TV/Show Name/Season #/Show Name S##E##.mkv
Music share split level is set to 2. Individual albums are forced onto a single disk. Directory structure is:
Music/Artist Name/Album/Title.mp3
For all my shares I have all disks included. All my spindown timers are set to 15 minutes. I also use the most free alocation method with the min free space set at 30000000. The only thing I do that is a little unusual is that when I add a movie to my movie share I manually place it on the disk I want it to be on. So rather than creating a folder in //Tower/Movies I create it in //Tower/disk #/Movies. The reason I do this is so that I can put all my kids movies on one disk and all the grown-up movies onto a different disk. I suppose I could have just created two different shares but I like having all my movies in one share. The reason that I split them up this way is becase I noticed that my disks were being spun up and down a lot on days my kids would watch movies. This was because they would watch a movie that was on disk 1 and then the next movie might be on disk 2. So by putting all their movies onto a single disk now I don't have that problem anymore.
Personally I don't think there is a right or wrong way to setup your network shares. It really depends on your own situation and what makes sense to you.
