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Thank you for the very detailed response and all the link and videos. I will spend some time reading and watching them. I am not too worried about transferring the files/converting the drives, I already have a plan for that. I really don't want to use RAID because of the upfront cost and hassle of buying and maintaining drives of the same size, hence my interest in unraid. However, it sounds like unraid cannot do what I want without a significant amount of custom scripting and cron jobs. It is good to know there are options for online backup.

I am considering switching to Unraid from my current setup. I am currently running Windows Server, with Drivebender as my JBOD management software. Drivebender is no longer developing their software and my version of Windows is old, so it needs to be replaced. I have done some research into Unraid, but I am still unsure if it can do what I am looking for. From what I have read Unraid uses a parity drive for drive failure recovery. I actually prefer the way Drivebender handled drive failure. Instead of a parity drive drive bender would duplicate files on multiple drives. This would not only allow those files to be recovered because they existed on multiple drives, but it also allowed multiple drives to be used while reading to increase performance. In my case this was helpful because I was using slower 5400 rpm drives to help reduce costs. Is this something Unraid can do? In addition Drivebender would allow me to select which directories I wanted duplicated. That way if I didn't care about certain files I save space by not duplicating them. I have over 5 TB of ripped movies that if worst comes to worst I could always re rip Next question. How does unraid work with online backup services. I currently use an online service to backup my file online as a second backup location incase something really bad happens and the server is a complete loss. Thanks in advance for answering the questions.