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HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) acquired by Wester Digital in 2012.

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Basic

6 (1,5,cache)

$59

Starter $49

2.5" SSDs

xfs

Hardware-assisted Virtualization (HVM)

Western Digital Ultrastar HC530 (14TB)

How_To's

--->

Plus

12 (1,11,cache)

$89

Unleashed $109

Laptops

btrfs

(Intel VT-x / AMD-V)

Toshiba

Plugins

Pro

Unlimited

$129

Lifetime $249

3.5"

zfs

(Intel VT-d / AMD-Vi ) (IOMMU)

Seagate Ironwolf

SpaceInvader_O

Annual $36

5.25"

ReiserFS

Pricing Research

snippets

goharddrives

Diskprices.com

Snapshots

Rhino Technology

shucks.top

Serverpartdeals.com

( 12TB for $75 )

Slot

Disk

GOHARDDRIVE

HGST

Parity

?? Therm. Mas.

Seagate Barracuda

Disk 1

from T3610-2

WD Cavier Green

Disk 2

ServerPartsDeals

Seagage Ironwolf Pro

Disk 3

from T3610

Disk 4

0.250

from Bryan's

Samsung SSD

Cache

Shares > User Shares >

appdata

application data

Cache

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Array

domains

saved VM instances

Cache

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Array

isos

ISO images

Cache

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Array

My_NAS

Array

system

system data

Cache

<--

Array

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/38725-help-understanding-the-quotsome-or-all-files-are-on-unprotected-storagequot/

The actual purpose of the indicator is to show that some files are still on cache and so are not yet protected by parity.

Nortrek, if you have a cache drive, then it indicates that some of the share's files are still on cache and haven't yet been moved to the parity-protected array.

This is normal and they will eventually get moved to the array. The default schedule for this is daily at 3:40 am. You can change this schedule in Settings > Scheduler > Mover Settings.

You can also go to the Main > Array Operation, push the "Move now" button.

If you don't want a share to use cache then you can set it to Use cache: No.

Also, you can set a share to stay on cache by setting it to Use cache: Only. This is usually done for application data, such as plugins and dockers.

I think the default is Use cache: Yes.

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/133332-some-or-all-files-are-on-unprotected-storage/

don't worry and stop searching ??

This is one of that points where UNRAID fools unexperienced users. First of all : DON'T PANIC !

The reason for the orange marker is simple, stupid and can be guessed if you try to think from the view of the OS.

UNRAID's job is to make your data as safe as possible. Therefor the parity drive and so on.

But if you use a single cache drive, UNRAID considers this to be a "single point of failure" and marks it orange. As long, as Data for a share resides on the cache, it will be orange. After Mover has moved it over to the "secure" array, it will return to green. Try it out (with a share with setting "cache: yes", other settings wont work).

Shares that have set "cache:prefer" or "cache:only" will never become green because there will be always data for them on the cache SSD.

The other way to get rid of the orange mark is to add a 2nd cache SSD to that pool (preferable of the same size). UNRAID will then create a RAID1 (mirror) pool, giving you the net size of the smallest SSD and keep them in sync on writes (slowing down write speed by 50%). Then all shares on cache will become green instantly.

CA plugin (Community Apps Plugin)

If you have faith in your cache ssd you can just ignore the orange light and carry on with full speed.

UnRAID Connect Plugin

Upgrading the unRAID OS

New & Improved Update OS Tool

Fix Common Problems plugin (highly recommended)

SMR vs CMR

To open a terminal --->

Moving / Copying files to unraid --->

www ---> \homes\nfs\plex\ ( NO, won't allow, "You need permission to perform this action" )

www ---> N:\Plex-Media ( Yes, this works. )