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In your case you would be using the extra drive as an App Drive and not for caching purposes. You might want to do this to keep the Plex docker container and related ‘appdata’ files off the main array for performance reasons but if you are not having issues certainly not urgent.

Interestingly the description in the provided link talks about port multiplier command compatibility. I wonder quite what that means?

I’d add a small qualifier to that! Any configuration changes made via the Unraid GUI are saved and persist across a restart even if the change would normally involve a OS config file on a standard Linux system.

True, although I am nearly certain it would not cause harm. The plugin is designed to detect an array operation that was started by some other mechanism, and then start carrying out its functionality.

Not quite sure what you are asking? Functionally that is exactly what it is designed to do. If you are saying what happens if you install (and configure) the plugin after the array operation has already started then it should in principle just kick into action at that point for the array operation currently in progress. I must admit, though, I have not explicitly tested this so my answer is based upon what I know about how it operates internally.

What licence do you have, and are you still within the support period you paid for?

At the moment rebooting will always reset the error count. I must admit I have never thought about preserving the error count across a reboot or array stop/start. Not sure if this could be improved but I will think about it.

You need an Unraid.net account as when running a trial as Unraid has checks each time the array is started that the trial licence is still valid. If/When you have a paid-for licence then Unraid can run completely locally.

Unraid uses Linux style formats (ReiserFS (deprectead), XFS, BTRFS, ZFS). If you boot the machine into Linux (which can be done using a 'live' CD') then you should be able to read them without issues. It is also possible to get software for Windows (e.g. from Paragon Software) that supports such file systems but it typically not free.

Just a thought - have you tried clearing your browser’s cache?

The FAQ for the licence says the last 2 releases get updates. It says that once a release has reached beta status it counts. In practice that means most of the time this will be the last stable release and the one currently being worked on.

Not quite sure what you are saying? The Parity Swap procedure is for exactly the Use Case you described. Are you just saying that you have no issue at the moment and want to know for future planning?

I suspect it is not quite that simple if many of their employees work from home much of the time so you may get responses outside any quoted hours.

I think all the Unraid team are based on USA West coast which will probably be what times you should assume for support being online.

Glad to hear that it now works. If anything similar happens again it is a good idea to post your system's diagnostics zip file so we can see how things are configured and look at logs. Saves us having to guess.