Here's my rig - What settings to use?

Great post! Thank you!

Looks like 24 for my setup. My only question left is the stagger. I have 16 HDD currently installed so hard drive transfer won’t be the limit.

Phase 1 might be the limit since it’s multithreaded. I’ll do some testing, but right now my best guess is to set the stagger for the average time Phase 1 takes on 4 threads.