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Thanks 🙂 ! I just tested out a Yottamaster 5 bay FS5C3 with 2x Seagate Exos X18 18TB drives (pulled 2 drives out of the Syba enclosure to test out). Write speeds achieved slightly above 500 MB/s which is excellent, as each individual drive I tend to get about 270 MB/s per CrystalDiskMark benchmarks. I tested out read speeds by copying multiple files to this new drive pool and then reading off it with 2 separate windows read operations (basically, pull files off the drive pool in 2 distinct copies going on simultaneously. 534 MB/s maximum read speed achieved with 2 drives! Mostly oscillating between 510-534MB/s! SMART data can also be read from this enclosure. I think the Yottamaster is a winner here 😄 I think I will slowly repurpose the SYBA for cheaper / slower drives I may acquire or for some of the parity drives for snap raid. I will use the Yottamaster for my data drives for the speed boost. Anyways I hope all this info helps someone else trying to figure out what DAS (disk attached storage) enclosure they might want to use with Windows 11 Pro / Stablebit DrivePool / snapRAID. Now to figure out how to get WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) up and running and hopefully be able to use badblocks to thoroughly stress test the whole system 😅