About this project

Lessons:

• Initial installation went flawlessly.
• To parity sync, a 14 TB drive takes approx. 22 hours
• 4x14tb drives equals nearly a week-long process to build the array with one parity drive
• Moving data from an unassigned device to a newly formatted array drive averages roughly 150 MB/s
• A non-formatted drive in the array led to frustrating Docker issues, which were resolved once the drive was formatted correctly or removed from the array.
• I should probably reconfigure with a second cache drive in a pool formation
• Dynamix File Manager is vastly superior to Krusader as a n00b learning the unRAID OS
• It was a big mistake to use a 5400 rpm drive as the first drive in my array to migrate data to, but it was the only drive I had without data.
• The order of operations should have been to assign a parity drive at the end of the data migration rather than the beginning. This is unintuitive UX as the unRAID Main tab orders “Parity Drive” as the first option when setting up the array
• Transferring 14tb of data from one unassigned device to the array has taken 36+ hours, the estimated time to finish has never been longer than 4 hours