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Thank you for your quick response. I'll try that and restart the Docker and VM services thereafter. Let's see if I notice a speed difference.

Good day All, A new user to Unraid having just installed it on a HP Microserver Gen 8 with a Xeon E3-1270v2 CPU and 16gb RAM. I know my way around servers fairly well as my current production MediaServer which has been running for many years is also another Gen8 running Ubuntu Server with the Arr-suite and Plex mostly. So I should have asked this question perhaps before I started but anyway here goes. This Unraid server is intended for use to serve Nextcloud where I will want to have files from mobile users sync to this instance. I am running 3 x 4Tb SAS drives as the main Array and 1 x 4Tb SAS drive as parity. I also have a Samsung EVO 870 256Gb SSD which I have left for now as "unassigned". I would like to use this for docker containers like Nextcloud and VM's to speed them up. I installed Nextcloud per instructions from a YouTube video from Space Invaders and obviously its installed it on the Array. I can feel that its slow to react because of that. What's the best way to use my SSD for the purposes I intend? Is it for example to assign it as cache or use it as another "array" and tell the system this is where "appdata" and VM's should live ? Hope I've been explicit enough and someone can guide be with the basics. Most appreciated.