April 17, 201214 yr My unraid system consists of 9tb worth of data drive, a 2tb parity, and a 650gb cache drive. I'm beginning to run out of data space (less than 60gb) and I'm reluctant to purchase a hard drive now as prices are still sky high. Can I just continue to put files on the cache drive after my data drives are full and they simply won't be transferred over with my scheduled nightly transfers?
April 17, 201214 yr Or create a folder with a leading period on the cache drive to store stuff you don't care about.
April 18, 201214 yr Just keep in mind that there is no parity protection of the cache drive contents. If it fails, then you lose the data that is on it.
April 18, 201214 yr Author Just keep in mind that there is no parity protection of the cache drive contents. If it fails, then you lose the data that is on it. I understand the risks. So it'll essentially work as I've described correct? I can still store and access data, but it won't be protected.
April 18, 201214 yr Yes. And having the first folder level with a period ( .foldername ) will ensure that the mover does not even try to move any of the contents in the event that there was some free space somewhere in the array. Or just turn the mover off, of course, and the data will appear as part of regular array hosted shares if the folder names match.
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