Greetings from Australia.

 

I am a complete NEWBIE, I recently rebuilt my UNRAID server with new HDD and when I bought it online, I discovered I couldn't view my share in windows.

I have googled the hell out of it. I have a parity drive, 3 data drive and a cache drive. I have since changed the settings on the cache drive and run "Mover", several times and it tells me the cache drive is good. BUT still I can't bring the share from orange light to green light.

 

Is there any new advice in 2023 please?

 

cheers

don't worry and stop searching 😁

 

This is one of that points where UNRAID fools unexperienced users. First of all : DON'T PANIC !

 

The reason for the orange marker is simple, stupid and can be guessed if you try to think from the view of the OS.

 

UNRAID's job is to make your data as safe as possible. Therefor the parity drive and so on.

But if you use a single cache drive, UNRAID considers this to be a "single point of failure" and marks it orange. As long, as Data for a share resides on the cache, it will be orange. After Mover has moved it over to the "secure" array, it will return to green. Try it out (with a share with setting "cache: yes", other settings wont work).

Shares that have set "cache:prefer" or "cache:only" will never become green because there will be always data for them on the cache SSD.

 

The other way to get rid of the orange mark is to add a 2nd cache SSD to that pool (preferable of the same size). UNRAID will then create a RAID1 (mirror) pool, giving you the net size of the smallest SSD and keep them in sync on writes (slowing down write speed by 50%). Then all shares on cache will become green instantly.

 

If you have faith in your cache ssd you can just ignore the orange light and carry on with full speed.

 

Edited January 6, 20233 yr by MAM59