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Heres some info that might answer a lot of your future questions and lays it out in a Visual way. https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual

Ok, Looking at what you posted. You set your share Limit to 100Meg. Did you set your Cache Minimum space to a larger value than 0? it needs to be higher as well. Share limits are designed to make sure drives that are low send files to other drives in the array. I don't know why your SSD wouldn't follow those rules too since its kinda part of the Share, but not part of the Protected Array. You need to go into your SSD settings, by clicking on it and look at the Minimum Space. I bet its zero. You need to stop the array and raise its value too.

To Bad your not running 3 Parity Drives. Lol Kill one Parity and 2 more grow back. Nice looking Build and welcome aboard.

it very well could be. I don't recall I changed mine years. ago. Should say. Minimum free space: If you click on it, there should be a help box that gives your some examples. I have mine set to 50GB, but your needs might need to be more or less depending on you usage.

1. First off make sure all your shares are set to use cache:yes not only unless there are specific ones you want to stay on cache 2. Click on your Cache and look for Minimum free space. it will be grey'd out until you stop the array to change its value. Make sure its set to at least 2x the size of your largest file so if you edit a file it has room to move. I personally have mine set to 50GB, but whatever suits you. If your going to cache a lot more I'd recommend upping the Minimum free space. 3. I use a 1TB SSD and I never come close to filling it. Maybe you need a larger SSD unless your constantly filling it with content and size isn't the issue. You can use the Mover Plugin which you can program to monitor your cache and move files based on specific parameters. Keep in mind it follows the scheduler for the regular mover, but does extra checks prior to moving. For example mine checks daily at 5:45AM and then fires off the plugin. I don't need it to run hourly.

Id post your Diagnostics as well.

I've been using unraid since 2009 and I've never encountered bit-rot that I know of. Lol Before 2009 I've lost many files or projects because I didn't have a reliable NAS and I tried many until I tried unraid. So the Gamble is yours, but I can tell you right now there is NO perfect solution.

Sounds like a Plan and Thank you.

Personally I just need Perl to control my case fans using the Auto Fan Plugin.

Yep that Dynamix File Manager has totally changed my work flow.

If you Run Chattr from my perspective it will not allow you to move files or delete them. Its the reason I run it, but I only run it on items that are in their permanent spot on the array. I run it on Shares using that script I posted above. From my experience you can not run chattr directly on shares you have to run them on drives, but again that script I posted above gets around that.

Totally understand and all of us do too. Just a lot of proud users defending their favorite OS because its been a long run. Unraid has come leaps and bounds from when I started using it in 2009. There was no App Store, Dockers heck I don't even recall Dockers at all then. The level of simplicity that has been added is mind blowing because of users creating things or simply figuring things out and contributing to the Community. When some of the Veterans say "its not that hard", keep in mind a lot of us came from the old system and have had time to tweak on things for years and share tips and tricks along the way. We have all learned a lot over the years and our work flows depend a lot on unraid and the things it does. I can tell you its made my life a lot easier, but I don't use a lot of remote connections. Plex and a few other things other wise my system is an iron box and I want to keep others out of it.

You could tinker with this some. Obviously you want to change the script so it doesn't wipe out your machine, but instead tell it to watch your logs and preform a shutdown instead. https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/vrinun/dead_mans_switch/?utm_source=BD&utm_medium=Search&utm_name=Bing&utm_content=PSR1

Just remember everybody this is his perspective on unraid. Everybody is entitled to their opinion even if we don't agree with it. Every time I purchase something I have high expectations too. If it doesn't deliver I either have to find a work around or return it. Luckily for everybody here we have a HUGE database of peoples knowledge to pull from. Unraid from its conception we've always said do not expose it to the outside world because you are taking a chance in loosing data or being hacked. People still want to expose it and as you can tell sometimes its just plain difficult because proper security is important. Luckily we have some options, but sometimes they are not the easiest. SAFETY of your DATA has always been the MOST IMPORTTANT deliverable from unraid.

Do a search for lancache on the apps section. I've not used any of them, but its the idea your talking about.

This is what I've been running for a while now. I created different scripts with User.Script to call it, but it works well. It uses Chattr, but its a bit more advanced than that. This is some code I wrote to call this script to Lock my Movies and then I have another to lock my Tv shows. I of course have a couple to unlock my TV or Movies too. #!/bin/bash #noParity=true #arrayStarted=true /mnt/cache/appdata/scripts/no_ransom.sh --lock-files 'yes' --media-shares 'Movies' --include-extensions '*.*' --debug 'yes' echo "Sending Notification" /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix/scripts/notify -e "$(date +%D-%H:%I) Movies Locked" -d "$(date +%D-%H:%I) Movies Locked" -i "normal" echo "." echo "." echo "done" So basically I put Bin-Hex's code on my SSD and then I use a User.Script to call it. I run it on my Media on the 15th of Every Month and get a neat little message to remind me. I've tried to delete files on purpose and it appears to work, but then refresh and realize my files are still there.

The old Mover, which I've not tried with this you would simply put a dot in front of the folder and it wouldn't move it. Example .Downloads

You could always run the USB drives using the Unassigned Devices Plugin, but they will not be part of the array or Parity protected. Not 100% sure that's the work around you might want, but it is an option for additional space and many people have used it. Just not preferred because of the lack of protection.

Yep my phone just blew up with dozens of reports. @SpencerJ and team are all over it. Problems is every time something is considered spammers find a new way to SPAM. Welcome aboard @ebusynsyn

Can you just add another mapped location in the Docker Settings? In Plex I have a TV mapping /mnt/user/TV Movies mapping /mnt/user/Movies For me it was as easy as adding another path. I don't use this Docker nor know how it works, but.....

I have a regular way of shutting everything down just in case. 1. Shut down all dockers 2. Spin up all drives 3. Shut down array 4. Shut down I also have a Plugin installed named Open Files so I can check for files that might be causing the array to be held on.

Welcome, Make sure you install User.Scripts if you like scripting so you can do some Automation which really takes unraid to the next level. To be honest I'm not a coder either, but I found unraid really satisfies my need to do some tinkering, but isn't required.

Us Poor Folk would just use a drill or a hammer. lol

There really isn't a setting per share, however you can go into your particular share settings and click the Mover Tuning - Move All Files From Share at the top and then click on the Move now button. It'll move only that share. There is a command line option you can use with cron that would move shares individually, but I don't recall the code. It is buried somewhere in all these comments thou.

2) 1. Primary Server with Plex and various other dockers. Runs 24/7 2. Backup which is a Data mirror of Primary. Runs 2x a month for a quick Rsync backup then back off. I might eventually install other hardware into Backup so its a quick swap if Primary is down, but I've never honestly had a need for it yet. At least my content is backed up with two parity protected arrays.