hey guys, thanks for the replies, sorry was busy getting the kids organized for school.
Jonathanm, i meant that was just one of the things i wanted to do. I would copy off the contents, disk by disk then add them to the Unraid array.
Ajgyomer, would a i5-3570k be ok for this or should i upgrade? i have a 3tb WD purple drive that I use now, it would be used outside of the array to record 24/7. Right now it records for about 7 days, works great. Can you explain your setup a little more? If i use my WD Purple for recording, would i just need an SSD for cache drive for the overall system, not just Blue Iris right?
Thanks guys for helping me out. Really like the look of unraid more than snapraid that i am using right now. Just a newbie in linux and that was a bit of a concern.