I'm currently on FreeNAS Corall and as I understood it's dead and not longer getting updates but working ok.
I tried moving back to my old original FreeNAS and the newer version 11, but been having issues with getting Plex work properly as it used to, and drives not always accessible on windows startup, so looking into alternatives, and wonder if I can get a similar setup with unRAID?

 

I got enough space to temporary move my NAS files to my PC, so I can setup unRAID and format my drives before moving my files back.

 

Currently using an HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 Entry
 

-- This is my important drives -- 

Disk 1: Photos. (wd red 3TB) (H: drive in windows)

Disk 2: Mirror of disk: 1. (wd red 3TB)

-- Not important data  --  (no backup needed)

Disk 3: Currently empty (WD 1TB) (J: drive in windows)

Disk 4: Some temporary stuff and easy to download again if needed. (WD 2TB) (K: drive in windows)

Disk 5: USB WD My Book external 4TB. Media files for Plex. (I: drive in windows). I consider taking the drive out of its enclosure and put it directly into my NAS instead.

Files can be recreated with a little work if I would lose them, won't "cry" if any happens to them.

 

Edit: 2020-05-17: I finaly made the move to Unraid this year (2020) after having enough of my problems with FreeNas. So far everything  been running fine since late february. Only wish up to now, that I could use my old Quadro card with Plex, but not supported with Nvidia Unraid.

Edited May 17, 20206 yr by Aotw

Hello and welcome.

 

I think unRAID could meet your needs very easily but there will be differences in the way you set things up.  unRAID supports 1 storage array with parity protection.  It does not support separate drive pools like FreeNAS.  If you chose to implement parity protection (everyone does), all data drives in the storage array will be protected by parity.  You can have one or two parity drives.

 

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/UnRAID_6/Overview#Network_Attached_Storage

 

Once your array is built, you create user shares to store your data (in the link above, just keep reading).  These are configurable and can span all drives, some drives, or be drive specific.  You map a drive in Windows to a user share.  FYI, I would not recommend trying to have any of the array drives in an external USB enclosure - array drives are better off in the NAS.  You can mount and dismount an external USB drive for occasional use, though.