coconuthead

I have a RAID 1 mirrored 500GB cache pool setup for my "downloads" folder, also for appdata, domains etc. I have 3 x 8 TB drives, 1 as parity in an array. I have both the /mnt/user/downloads (cache=prefer) and /mnt/user/plex (cache=no) folders mounted as network shares. I'm curious how data moves onto the array in the case of adding new content to the media server. Lets say I add download a new movie and want to add it to Plex. If I copy this from my Windows machine, directly to the /mnt/user/plex share held on the array (cache=no) then I presume Mover never gets invoked and I am writing directly to the array. Is a better alternative here to copy the files onto the /mnt/user/downloads share, which will then be cached. Then invoke Mover, or have it invoked periodically to move files onto the array. And then, later copy from /mnt/user/downloads into /mnt/user/plex? Thanks!