Wedding Photographer - Is unRAID what I need?

Wedding photographer here. I shoot about 2TB of RAW files a year. I currently backup using x2 WD My Books that I purchase every two years (manually mirrored). After 5 years, it's a total mess. I want to build a 8 bay tower that will allow me to add drives as my budget allows; but also pop in some of my My Book drives and use those, too. Some are 5TB WB Blues. I'd also like it if my Windows workstation could see this tower as, basically, a large external hard drive. It w

Here's my workflow for the occaisonal event/sports photography that I do, just as a simple example. Copy RAWs from SD card to local drive on PC Start Import with Lightroom, first pass keep/delete and obvious cropping Select final files for import Run Import FROM c:\pictures\import TO \\tower\Photos\ShootCategory\ShootName Do further developing on collection Export jpgs for client gallery So, where tower is your unRAID Server and Photos is a user shar