Finally finishing the shell game of getting my new unraid array up.
1) Data is all successfully TXed at validated. I managed to resist making a giant zfs array... for now
Prior Systems:
1) Main PC : 4U 20bay hotswap Ryzen 2700x, Ryzen7 2700X, 32gb ram, 68TB NTFS RAID6 Areca Array
2) Unraid PC: 2u Intel I5-7600, 16gb RAM, 1tb nvme only
3) Spare 4u: 16bay hotswap, Areca RAID6 1883ix-24 24 core old-ass-xeon, 80GB ram, randomass-test-drives. Wasnt running
Pulled the boards from all 3, cleaned up the chassis real nice, did good wire routing and then swapped the main pc into the spare 4u case, the unraid mobo into the main pc 4u, and decomm'ed the old xeon.
They all boot, but ive got software work to do tonight to get everything running, and some new cables to run since i'm getting them out of the vertical rack situation in the network closet. Created a new 12U space under the stairs for the noisier stuff (although these are "silenced") to make the network closet in the living room silent.
Bonus points to having the network closet under the stairs are that I can vent heat where I want depending on the season, which I couldnt do in the network closet. Summer, i can push it outside, winter I can either push it straight back into the house or directly into the heat-pump intake vent on the water heater. Not sure which is best from an energy perspective. Probably pushing it back into the house.