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Thanks for all of the insight and suggestion about reconstruct write - files are now copying to the array at ~100 MB/s!

I’m transferring data from a mounted unassigned disk to my array, and I want to confirm that I’m doing it correctly. I originally tried using Krusader, but I couldn’t get the WebGUI to load (I’m on unRAID 7.1.4, and most tutorials seem to be for older versions), so I switched to the built-in file management method. Here’s what I did: On the Main tab, I clicked the unassigned disk, drilled down to the folders, and selected the files I want to copy using the check-boxes. I clicked the Copy button at the bottom, selected the destination folder: /mnt/user/media/Movies/ Then I clicked Start to begin the copy. Questions: Is this the correct way to do it? I’ve read warnings about potential data corruption when moving files directly between a disk and the array vs. going through a user share, so I want to make sure this method is safe and my data will remain intact. Is using this built-in copy method essentially the same as using Midnight Commander (MC) in older versions, or is there an advantage to using MC instead? The copy speed seems slow, around 42–50 MB/s after the first minute. It starts at ~170 MB/s but drops quickly. Is this normal for this method, or is there a better way to transfer large amounts of data? System Context Single array: 2×8TB HDDs Parity: 1×8TB HDD Cache pool: 1×500GB SSD