unRAID Shares

unRAID Shares

Unlike most RAID systems, unRAID saves data to individual drives. To simplify manageability, users can create shares that allow files written to them to be spread across multiple drives. Each share can be thought of as a top-level folder on a drive. When browsing through a share, all data from all drives that participate in that share will be displayed together. Users do not need to know which disk a file is on in order to access it under a share. Shares can be tuned to include/exclude specific disks and to utilize various methods for determining how files are allocated across those disks. In addition to controlling how data is distributed across drives, users can also control what network protocols the share is visible through as well as define user-level security policy. When accessing your unRAID server over a network protocol, all shares exported through that protocol will be visible, but you can toggle protocols for both individual shares as well as at a global setting level. Should you have private data on your system that you wish to protect from anonymous access, user accounts can be created and policies defined to limit access to only trusted individuals.  In addition to this concept of user shares, entire individual disks can be shared individually as well for advanced management capabilities.  The simple concept with shares is that they enable you to organize your data any way you want.