Thinking of pulling the trigger on this unit seems to be turn key would like to try some new (to me) hardware and setup a home lab for learning one question would be how is this raid card I would think it would need to be flashed to IT mode if that's doable hows the price $339.00 us in comparison to others out there

 

 

So you would need to replace the perc 6i, with something that can do JBOD, I don't believe the perc 6i is capable of JBOD. So get something like an H200, H310 and flash to IT mode to use with unRAID. The only other limiting factor is six drive bays, but if you are starting out and feel that is enough for now, then that is fine.