[boxingrock]

closing in on 10 years with unraid, here's a few key points:

- trades more raw storage for slower performance, only one parity drive is needed

- if two drives die, you can still recover the rest of the data, no special recovery software needed

- allows you to mix drive brands, sizes, smr, cmr, etc, etc...

- allows you to expand one drive at a time, buy whatever is on sale when you need it

- drives spin down when not in use, saving on power and replacements

if you got a ton of media, it's pretty solid tech. the one thing i'd like to see is an "unraid lite", a headless solution with a cheap yearly fee. something to keep generating income for the team while allowing the vets more flexibility. because at the 10 year mark, it'll have worked out to $15/year for me and since i'll be virtualizing it again, i only really need security updates for kernel, ssh and samba.