So I’m in the process of transferring data from my windows machine to a new Unraid build. I’m a complete noob. I have no parity drive yet. I started out with my transferring going cache/pool. Then figured out when transferring from unassigned drives the cache was extra step and changed moving data to just pol.

Now I think I have my files on my pool drives and yet the same files show on my cache. I believe I did multiple transfers so the cache files might be a holdover prior to changing cache/pool on my cache.

How can I confirm that I have for sure the files in my pool and the same files in my cache drive is redundant and can be deleted…?! And not part of spanning both pool and cache…??

Edited April 17Apr 17 by ZeroKwel

I think you are using the word "pool" to mean what we normally refer to with Unraid as "the array". "cache" is itself a "pool".

Not really clear what you have done. Are you transferring directly to individual disks or cache, instead of transferring to user shares?

Attach Diagnostics ZIP to your NEXT post in this thread.

20 minutes ago, ZeroKwel said:

Now I think I have my files on my pool drives and yet the same files show on my cache

User shares includes all array disks, plus all pools, such as cache. So if you are looking at user shares, and also looking at cache, you may be seeing the exact same files instead of duplicates.

Pool array how do I confirm the data on my cache is duplicated on my array…. .? And not the same data… after days ago separating my transfers to no longer include my cache when moving to my array..?? And maybe moving the same data twice…?

Edited April 17Apr 17 by ZeroKwel

If you were transferring to user shares there shouldn't be duplicates.

11 minutes ago, trurl said:

Attach Diagnostics ZIP to your NEXT post in this thread.

If you still have files on cache, it may be because you didn't allow them to be moved before you reconfigured the user shares to not use cache.

Diagnostics can let us quit guessing and actually give some advice on how to proceed.