As unRaid matures and moves towards more prosumer/consumer vs expert users, some attention to how various wording of error messages and such would help reduce newbie (I'm one of them!) confusion.

 

For instance...consider this page/message (I had to pull a drive temporarily and then when i put it back, the system saw it as a new drive and displayed a very confusing message).

 

http://my.jetscreenshot.com/12412/20150625-m4gs-84kb.jpg

 

Now it might seem painfully obvious to the user familiar with the way that unRaid presents confirmation messages (Yes I want to do this).  But if you're new to the OS and you read the previous sentence, seems like you could be confused into doing the exact opposite of what you wanted to do.  Consider the words if you just read the last sentence and the checkbox together (you have to admit, the check box DOES look like its part of that sentence!)

 

If you want to preserve the data on the new disk, reset the array configuration and rebuild parity instead.

Yes I want to do this

 

I would suggest the usage of some discrete spacing and perhaps a label in front of the check box like "Confirmation to clear drive:  [] Yes, I want to do this." would help.

 

IMPORTANT:  If you want to preserve the data on the new disk, do not clear the drive, rather reset the array configuration and rebuild parity instead.  [link to "how to rebuild parity"].

 

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Confirmation to clear drive (destroys drive contents):  [] Yes, I want to do this.

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I'd recommend putting a box around the confirmation checkbox (or colored background or something) to set it as a consistent and unique function that is very important to consider before taking action.

 

I can see how that can be misinterpreted.