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I would also like to know how (if possible) to increase the failed attempts, or decrease the wait time, since I only know what SSH does from watching movies and TV.

Cool, I'll look up creating SMB shares later, it would be nice to manage my Unraid & Windows files from my laptop in the future. I still need to learn more about Unraid, (what are all of these dockers?) and learn more about getting PlexPass set up with accounts and other stuff. Thanks again for the info!

Thanks @jcofer555 , for the clarification, especially on the moving / copying thing, and on the capitals vs Capitals different files & folders thing with Linux. q4: Since I can see the Unraid server across my network from my Windows 10 pro PC, would dynamix or another Unraid file manager be able to see my Windows attched USB drives? Would it be 'better' (faster? safer) in some way to copy data across the local network from Windows USB drives TO the Unraid server FROM within an Unraid file manager, or is doing it from Windows Explorer more or less the same thing? Thanks in advance

Longtime Windows user trying to set up Unraid for future PlexPass server use. I am worried that my Windows file management practices will screw up my data with Unraid. (read below) I first set up Unraid (6.12.8) with a 14tb data drive that formatted with 'xfs' after pre-clear, and created a share called 'Media'. I created sub-folders called 'Movies', 'TV', 'Documentaries', etc. for future file copying use. I am manually copying data folders (videos & music) from my the first of several 12-14tb Win-10 connected USB drives to the 'Media' share. I am using Windows Explorer and copying in 200-500gb bunches. I am comparing file byte size in Windows Folder Properties between the two drives before copying the next bunch. When the first drive is copied over, it will be shucked and added to the server, and I'll continue until all drives are copied over. The main reason to set up a server in the first place was to stop having to split up my media across many drives and crazy folder names, like "TV-animated", "TV-Hour", "TV-Half-Hour", "Movies-Franchises-Sequels", Movies-before1970", "Music-Check-Tags", etc. I plan on consolidating / moving around / renaming the folder names after I have everything copied to the server in one 'share', but at first the server 'Media' share will have several TV, Movie and other media folders in it. I'm almost done copying the first drive and wanted to start setting up Plex to try out what I copied, about 12 TB of data out of a total 70 TB or so. when I got confused watching tutorials... Q1) I read that I should 'copy' and not 'move' files to Unraid because file names can be messed up when 'moving' files. I', not sure why 'moving' is bad but that's how I am copying files over. But is there an 'Unraid safe' file manager that won't let me accidently 'move' something that shouldn't not be moved but 'copied' instead? Q2) I can rename and capitalize file and folder names in Windows, but what do I watch out for when managing files and folders with Unraid? Q3) I ran home Plex on my older Windows PC, so I know a little about it. All of the Unraid - Plex tutorials I see mention creating a new 'share' for Plex. Is this right? Shouldn't I point Plex (binhex-plex or the official Plex app) to the existing Unraid 'Media' share, and then go into Plex GUI and there choose the sub-folders to use for Plex? Sorry for the long post, but I want to copy the data correctly before I get too far along and copy, shuck, pre-clear wipe and install them.

Thanks @itimpi for the clarification. When I get home from work I'll install the plugin and work from there, or maybe it'll be done 'parity-ing' by then, heh heh.

Is it alright to stop the array in mid 'parity work' and then use the Tuning plugin you mentioned? And do you know if it will do this parity check each time I add a drive? Also, is it alright to copy data to the data drive while the parity check is running? (It sounds like I can copy data while it's running, but I am posting then reading the link cuz I'm paranoid and scared of damaging the drives) thanks EDIT: I just read through the parity section in the link, I already understood how parity works in general, just not that it was going to run parity for so long even if the data drive was near empty, how long it would end up taking, or if I can stop it and use a plugin and then start the array again to use the tuning plugin. Thanks again in advance

I am setting up a new home Unraid server. I ran preclear on my new 16tb parity drive and a year-old 14tb data drive. I formatted the new NVME SSD as XFS that I am using for cache. I started the array and saw the orange triangle for 'Parity is Invalid. After reading forum posts saying that it will go 'green' after it is done after the check is finished, I let it run. Going back to it after 2 hours, I see that the parity drive still 'orange triangle - invalid' and is reading a lot of data from the 14tb drive that has only 97mb of data on it after preclear. Both drives should be 'empty'. I was going to copy data over from other drives once I set up my shares to my Windows 10 pro PC where my USB NTFS data drives are plugged in. After each drive was copied to the server, I plan to shuck it and add it as an additional empty drive to the server and add more data until 5 data drives are added. Is 2+ hours to run parity on an 'empty' (almost empty) data drive normal? How long should the parity check take? Thanks in advance EDIT: I see that the data drive has 97 GIGS of data on it. I thought it would have been wiped when I ran preclear, it may be data left over from when I copied stuff off it it to my other USB drives in order to use shuck it and use it as my first Unraid data drive. I looked but did not see any way to format that drive before setting up the array, only to format the NVME SSD. The 16tb and the NVME drives were brand new and should not have any data on them.