Solel//dev docs
For admins

Storage and drive health

Settings › Storage shows this server's drives, what fills them and how they're doing. Everyone can see it. Admins get more ways to make room.

At the top

One line sums it up, such as Your drives are healthy, Space is running low or a drive that's failing. Space is running low below 10% free, and almost out below 5% or 2 GB. When it runs out, Solel and its apps can't save anything.

Space

A bar shows what's used and what's free, split into Photos, Files, Apps and models, and System. Apps and models is what apps keep and the AI models. System is Solel itself, its snapshots and anything else on the drive.

Make some room

Suggestions worth over 100 MB, biggest first, each with the one step that does it:

  • Empty your Trash: everything in your own Trash, deleted for good. See Trash and earlier versions.
  • Remove a model no Sol uses. Admins only. You can download it again any time.
  • Clear out old snapshots: snapshots over a month old. Admins only; it opens Snapshots.

Apps keep their own data; clear that out in each app.

Drives

Each drive shows its model or type (NVMe SSD, SSD, Hard drive or Virtual disk), size, temperature, how much of its life is used and how long it has run. Its status is Healthy, Running hot, Wearing out, Failing or Not checked.

Solel asks each drive how it's doing every half hour, and tells admins as soon as one:

  • runs hot: from 55 °C for a hard drive, 70 °C for an SSD and 75 °C for an NVMe SSD
  • wears out: 90% of its rated life used
  • fails its own check. Copy what matters off the server now, then replace the drive.

This works in the Docker install too, where each drive is asked from a short-lived container of its own. A drive that was asleep shows Not checked until the next look, and a virtual machine's disks have no health check of their own, so they always do. Keep your backups up to date either way.

Keeping things safe

Last snapshot says when one was last taken, and admins can open Backups from here. Snapshots live on the same drives as everything else, so they don't replace a backup. See Backups and snapshots.