FragaGeddon

Thanks for the info. I ended up doing what I was doing before. Creating a share and using only one drive, instead of selecting like disk 1, disk 2, disk 3, etc. And the too many devices error was I forgot that I was trying a different USB, that I was going to do a fresh install with. I didn't bother using a parity drive or a cache drive. My files are backed up on external playbooks, so if one drive fails, I'll just replace it and put the files back on it.

I do have just a 1 TB HD, but I'm thinking about replacing this with maybe a 2TB SSD and use that as the cache drive. My Hard drives 4 x 4 TB drives, 1 x 3 TB Drive, and 1 x 1 TB Drive. I'm planning om using one of the 4 TB drives as a parity drive. I had this set up and running before, but I'm new and was playing with the setup. I created shares to just the one hard drive, and not across them all. Like one HD was Movies, One HD was TV Shows, The other was Files and Backup. And I do have each separate HD backed up to an external HD. Will I get faster write/read times if I create a share across like all 4(5) HD's, while using a cache SSD?

I have 6 Hard drives, plus the USB as the boot. Does Unraid include the USB as a device? I have just the 6 license key.

One thing that I now like about IMDb, is they display their stars in order of appearance in the movie. So if I have a movie that looks wrong, I'll load it up and quickly go the end to see the credits. Then I just go to IMDb and look at the stars for that movie in question.

I was always using TMDB to get the info for movies, but I'm ditching it and only using IMDd from now on.

I decided to move the files back into their own folders. Some movies I'll download the subtitles for the foreign parts of a movie. And these I also name the same as the Movie title. Gold (2016)/Gold (2016).mkv

I've never had an issue in Plex, doing it they way I had it. But then I installed Kodi on my windows PC and pointed it to the Movie drive. There's was a issue with one movie, I haven't bothered checking them all, but the movie was Gold (2016). In Plex it showed it proper, but with Kodi and showed it differently. Plex I believe gets the info from IMDb , and Kodi gets the info from TMDB. I know you can add different scrapers. So the TMDB had 2 movies in 2016, one just being Gold, and the other was One Piece Film: Gold. And since the latter was released after the first one, Kodi pulled in this info instead. I did what you said and stuck in a folder called Gold (2016)/Gold (2016).mkv, and Kodi saw it properly. So thanks for that!

I use TMDB https://www.themoviedb.org/ and also IMDb https://www.imdb.com/ I think I will start using IMDb for looking at movie info, I was always using TMDB before. One movie I just happened to stumble upon that was wrong. TMDB had the year of release as 2005, but IMDb has it as 2004. Once I changed that file name to the correct year, it pulled in the proper data and cover art.

This is what I do for naming my files. Before, I've never included the year in the file name, but now I do, not absolutely necessary, but I do this to all my files now. Before if I had a movie and the cover art looks off, or wasn't the right one. I would go to TMDB and type in that movie. Also I'd click the little pencil icon and click on info to see what I had that file named as. Also looking at TMDB to see how they have spelled that movie name. For example I had a movie called High Rise. There's a few of them on TMDB, but the one I had was actually High-Rise (hyphen), and the release date was 2015, so I name my file High-Rise (2015). So if you name the file and include the year in brackets, then it should pull in the proper data. I know you can select Fix Match, and do it this way, but I've never ran into an issue with proper file naming.

Thanks. This is the MOBO, that I'll be using with Unraid. https://www.empowerlaptop.com/p/asus-p8h77-m-motherboard-w1711/?gclid=CjwKCAjw7IeUBhBbEiwADhiEMbI2-7bPt4h8W0m-tmLNnfJUZPsXqUjeO-hvPWRduL47HTZ1wlpGgxoC_JQQAvD_BwE

Sorry one more question. Should I invest in an sata card, that would run off the PCI slot? I'm not worried about write/read speeds, this is basically a backup for movies, and for watching movies and TV shows, and file backups. But is there a real benefit using a sata card with unraid?

Awesome, thanks. That's pretty much what I thought, but wanted to make sure, before I gave up one drive to use as a parity drive. So since I have external backups, I won't use a parity drive. And if that drive fails, I'll just replace it, and put files back on to it.

I'm going to have at least 4 x 4 TB drives and maybe a 2 x 1 TB drives (probably not). Right now I have these drives running in windows and for each drive I have an external PlayBook for each drive that backs up those drives using a program called SyncBackSE. I have several PC's and one of them basically just runs Resilio File Sync Software. This PC I would attach the external hard drives and have it backup the files from the Unraid Drives. So if I did this, would I need a parity drive? I know with a parity drive is if one drive dies, you can stick in a new one and have it rebuilt. But if I'm copying the files to the external drives, do I need this. Thanks.