Setting up Shares on Unraid 6.9 for Best Performance

This is the 5th part of a series of videos all about Unraid 6.9 and shows how to plan and setup your Unraid shares to be as efficient as possible. When should a share be cache enabled? When shouldnt it be? How to choose which disks to have shares on and which disks not to.
This series will take you through everything that you need to know to get a server up and running quickly and easily. From start to finish!

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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

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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.

[justangvano]

Another excellent video. So glad you are doing this series and finally getting some support for all your hard work.

[seamydobbsno]

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!

[Hopfenmaltine]

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.

[kevinintheusa]

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.

[rallygallery]

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.

[DavidSmith-fhyi]

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!

[maxmonciardini]

Are you a wizard? This is exactly what I was looking for today! Thanks!

[davidbanner]

Very easy to follow and makes complete sense. Thanks.

[chrislowe]

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.

[ivanjuarez]

I needed this back on version 5, my unraid is all kinds of not the best setup. Great video.

[SidebandSamurai]

This was a great video, thank you very much.

[krzyzakpolska]

Great explonation and suggested use cases!!

[Ajirikawa]

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.

[DavidM]

Super helpful to a new Unraid-er. Subscribed.

[juanmartinez-rpsh]

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!

[propman]

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

[mattwells]

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?

[carlnakamura]

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?

[bibeltours]

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)