Ah, yea that’s fair.

The RAID I’m talking about requires same size and speed of drives to be optimal. Otherwise it goes with the smallest and slowest drive in the array.

You talking about unraid?

I don’t really need speed. RAID is for people who like to spend money on same size/speed drives

Reasonable justification as well

I think my main thing to is, if something breaks my wife can figure it out even without me around. If I go to BSD or linux…well cards are off the table at that point.

Yep, it’s great for those of us who are lazy lol

It does but it’s not great from what I’ve read for jbod setups. Drivebender has been awesome for over a decade for me. It balances everything and even lets me keep local backups, so if one drive dies it’s got a copy on another drive.

Yea I know, but I’m not looking to cross over into something that I have little experience with just yet. I’m just looking for a set and forget style design.

Windows domain. Just what I’ve stuck with.