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I am an old drive pool / scanner user. Used it since MS Home server (both versions), migrated up to Server 12 - and had been using that for years. But when I started to look at Server 19 and seeing how MS was getting away from the home market ended up deciding to go to Unraid instead. In general its good - been running that for awhile now, but it has its share of issues. (Removing a drive is an awful process, and SMB performance even with plugins / tunning not great) Thought about ZFS, but I have a mix of drives and that's still not there for shucker folks who don't keep drive consistency and not sure when that will every arrive. Got one of those cheap intel Arc's so want to try that out with Jellyfin - and figured since I am going to be doing some major server changes I might as well get off of Unraid. So going to be migrating back to Windows Server - 2022 with essentials addon. But not sure now on the drives if I should be using REFS or NTFS with DP. Any folks with similar setups? Planning to also check out how well does Primocache work to help address performance issues, (Have 2 2tb SSD's I can use for that) My setup: X570 with AMD3700X 3x18tb 2x16tb 1x14tb 1x10tb 3x8tb Now to the question - what are folks thoughts about DP and the format options? Posts I have found seem to be a few years old, and looking for some current feedback. Appreciate any thougts.