Can you automate moving files from ssd's to hard drives based on time last accessed?

[Dean C]

First a little about me. I run a media company that has multiple in-house editors with a very expensive 350tb dropbox bill.

I am technical enough to have an idea of what is and isn't possible, but not practiced enough to know what the heck everything is called.

We are a small business so don't really have the resources to hire an IT team to manage it. Which is why Hex OS seems like a good option for us. We can DIY some stuff together and upgrade as the business grows (Which I presume is what True NAS will allow us to do once our use case get's more complex)
 

 

So, as for my question. I would hope for a solution that involves everything being in one folder and then as an individual file goes unused for about 2 weeks the file is no longer stored on the ssd, but is moved to a slower hard drive for "cold storage". To the editor, I want them to not even know the file has moved, I want it to just appear exactly where it always is for them.

Current plan is to build out a head unit that has all of the ssd's and compute in it and connect it up to a jbod or two to expand as needed

[zipityzi]

This would be a pretty neat feature, especially for big ingresses, where I usually need to copy to NVMe pools → work / edit / build → export back to HDDs.

Unraid does something similar with its cache pools & "mover", so there is precedent for something like this to be added to HexOS.