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Thank you for all the info. You have been very helpful! Today I have been playing around with different configs. For me to achieve what I want where things all look healthy and green (cause that’s how I like it in my mind) lol, I had to add two dummy flash drives which I used as the main array. One with parity and one in normal array. This is because without a parity device I still kept seeing warnings which was bugging me and triangles. I then created a ZFS pool using my main 1TB SSD drives for all my data. And then on the shares I configured everything to stay on the storage pool and nothing to go to the array. Hopefully this will be okay to use long term but seems to do the trick for now.

Ah I see. Okay I am going to play around with this more I think in my VM to test I can get this working how I want. But maybe the best option for me is like you said, not to have the ‘main array’ but just use ZFS in a pool and use that as my main storage without moving any data to the ‘array’. Are there going to be any plans in the future to support SSD and trim in the main array? Or is it just expected to have HDD? As a home user I have to use SSD only as my NAS is located in the living room and too noisy otherwise with normal drives. 🙂

Reading documentation looks like auto trim is supported if I use ZFS https://unraid.net/zfs-pools-rc3

No. I was not aware of the trimming issue either for the array with SSD. I am only using this as a home NAS solution to watch movies etc. Nothing major with read/write. I see that in new version of Unraid you can ZFS instead of using XFS for the array. Would the array support Trim when using ZFS? I was hoping not to use ZFS as only got 8GB ram in this system and ZFS cache can consume far amount.

Oh really… I was not aware of that. All of my disks are SSD. So is the performance decrease using parity really going to be that bad? I have been testing Unraid today in a VM. I have noticed that even with a parity drive because I am using a single cache drive I still get those warning triangles on all the shares located on the cache drive. I definitely won’t be adding another cache drive so guess I will have to live with it… 😞 Really hope in the future there will be some advanced option to disable those unprotected warnings.

Visually yes it annoys me personally. This is totally ‘personal preference’ though. No I am not referring to notifications. I just don’t like seeing all the unprotected warnings on the shares and in the browser tab when I am the one that has configured it in that way. I don’t mind the warnings on the Array config page because I understand they should be there to warn users that the array is unprotected. But would be great to have a check box to acknowledge the risks that this is how I have configured it and I accept those risks. I am comparing Unraid here to TrueNas Scale a bit I guess as they warn you only on the storage pool config and I think on the data sets. But you don’t have warning triangles every where. While it’s great to be factual. Having the warnings everywhere to me as a user is giving me the appearance that my array is not in good health. When in reality it is, because I am using it how I intend and accepting any data loss that may occur. I have actually just purchased another drive now to add to the system to now use as a parity drive to overcome all those warnings and make my array show in good health. I just want to add though that I do love this software! I really like how Docker UI is laid out and the ease of configuration in the product. I am only in my trial stages right now but I definitely see myself making a purchase in the near future.

Thanks for the response. That’s a shame. Looks like I will have to think about a parity drive then.

As title says is there a way to remove the unprotected warnings when not using a parity drive? I am just a simple home user and don’t care about data loss but I want to use Unraid for storage and docker. Only thing is that when I don’t use a parity drive there are so many warnings I would like to disable as visually find them annoying. Is there a way to do this? Maybe a community plugin or script I am not aware of that can do this? Thanks!