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The great thing about the way Unraid does parity is that since it uses 1 (like RAID 5) or 2 (like RAID 6 where you can lose 2 disks) dedicated disks for parity you still get the same "lose any disk" protection (as JorgeB stated) but because there is no parity or data striping involved all of your data disks are just regular disks formatted with XFS. This means that if you took one of your data disks and put it in another Linux system (or any system capable of reading XFS) then you could read it just fine. If you were to loose more than one disk in a RAID 5 setup you would lose all of your data. In Unraid since the data disks are just normally formatted disks you would still be able to read any disk that did not fail. Another advantage to not striping the data is that when you read the array you only need to spin up the disk that contains the files you are reading and not every disk like you would with RAID 5. The downside is that you don't get the throughput of reading from all of your disks at the same time like you do in RAID 5. For me this is a perfectly acceptable trade-off because I don't need super high throughput for my use case (meda server). I hope this helps.

For your movies you want "top two". Do you need help with your TV share too? If so, what are you trying to keep together?

For your movies you want "top two". Do you need help with your TV share too? If so, what are you trying to keep together?