It *almost* worked for me in the end, but it crashed at the armoryDB.exe part still. I reinstalled Armory and without wallet it worked, then when I imported the old wallet it happened again after trying to sync.

So i thought maybe the blockchain got corrupt (Bitcoin Core was synced but there were no wallets in it). Anyway, I am now running Bitcoin Core getting fresh blockchain. Problem is, it seems it will take at least 10 days to fully sync. Is it normal these days?

I am running it on the NAS and while the CPU and RAM usage is relatively low, the NAS is hammered badly. I can hear its 6 RAID-6 connected HDDs working all the time now. The NAS has write speed of around 100MB/s.

When I was syncing the blockchain on the internal SSD, the laptop was unusable almost completely.