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I ended up creating a new vDisk and then moving the data disk within Home Assistant to it. So far so good but still curious why this functionality didn't work in unRAID.

Update - I was able to get the USB to boot automatically after breaking everything. I simply decided to try a new USB port, a USB 2.0 one. The startup hung on "Unable to enumerate USB device". I tried a few other new USB ports and kept hitting that error. I then went back to the origional port and booted without toching anything and it started right up no problem. I am very confused, can you not change the USB port 

Ok everything looks great now. Here is a recap so I can mark it resolved:
 
 
This needed a config change to the share so "Export" was enabled.
 
 
They changed the way these are configured between 6.11 and 6.12. Any Cache with an Array as secondary will respect the mover schedule and the direction of files being moved is specified in the share.
 
 
There is a bug in the UD plugin where you can't mount a drive that has a partition with no file system. This will be fixed soon but can be worked around by Detaching and Re-Attaching the Unassigned Device with Auto Mount enabled. On reattach it should auto mount. You can also access drives in this state inside of a Windows VM. 
 
 
There is more to it than setting the config right (as I've seen is the case with setting up most things up). I posted a thread above that explains how to set it up.

Since this is post has died down I will wrap up what my takeaways. Big thanks to everyone who provided feedback!
 
1. Should I be using 1 or 2 disks for Parity?
 
Yes, better safe than sorry and I have the space.
 
2. Should my Parity drives be plugged directly into my motherboards SATA ports or is the HBA fine?
 
Doesn't matter, use mobo until you need more ports and then add the HBA. 
 
3. Should I pre-organize my data before the transfer?
 
I have organized my library according to these guidelines: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200381043-multi-version-movies. It took 18 hours for my automated process to run and group/move/rename all of the movies but I should be collision free for the migration. I read in another post that this setup doesn't work great with *arrs because they only support keeping the highest quality version of a media file, they don't support multi-versions like Plex. I will cross that bridge when I come to it. 
 
4. Should each video file be in it's own folder?

Yes, see #3 - I have already organized them into their own folders based off of Plex guidelines.
 
5. How much do I need to worry about User Shares and Split Level configurations?
 
Using user shares for different types of files seems like a good idea. I will start with Movies, TV Shows, and Photos. I don't need to worry about split level as much because I have large drives and none of my media is multi-part files. 
 
6. Will using Krusader to copy files unbalance the drives? Should I use Midnight Commander instead?
 
Dynamix File Manager is another alternative to check out. Unclear if Krusader has poor behavior for a large transfer. Wil do more research before the initial migration. Data will be transferred from unassigned NTFS drives formated in Windows (some external) to the array and once the transfer is complete the drive will be precleared and added to the array. 
 
7. Is having two 2x2TB Raid 1 Cache Pools a bad idea?
 
Good idea but do not use the cache pool during the initial data transfer because it will just fill up. Will see how configuration looks like when I go to set things up. Hopefully it is straightforward to add a Raid 1 cache pool and stop things from hitting it before the array temporarily. 
 
Thank you for the help! Any additional feedback would be great. I'll post my build in the show off thread once everything is done.