Well, I might give up on unraid... the transfer speeds are complete arse! only getting around 40-50MB/s whereas with windows and other OS I usually get in the range of 105-113MB/s... on the same hardware, just to be clear. Which is a b350 mobo with athlon 200GE, 3x4TB seagate ironwolf and 1x wd red 4TB as parity, on an HBA LSI 9211-8i. Spent around 7 hours doing the parity check yesterday also.

I might decide to build another NAS using my old pi3 or something maybe, just for something to do as much as anything... or maybe an unraid buiild but without parity drives, simply because I like the way that the shares are simple, and so is using dockers etc. There's a lot I like about unraid, but it certainly has it's downsides too.

So time to re-image my SSD with the windows image I backed up 2 days ago, and then re-fill the drives I guess, LOL.