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You can always have more than one parity disk to improve your chances, and yeah, I agree with your approach. And yes, Flexraid might be a good option (even if I think the guy is a total dick). On a side note, my house was hit by lightning which started a fire in the roof cavity and blew out a whole lot of house wiring, a router and a couple of computer motherboards. All hard drives remained working.
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Hmmmm. Can't remember the last time that a Windows machine crashed on me. I like Microsoft only marginally more than I like Apple (which is not at all), so I don't want to get in a holy war over it. I had a Hp Microserver running Windows 7 and DriveBender- doing what he wants to do basically- until it was killed by lightning. Very stable.
If he goes with unraid he's going to have to buy at least one new hard drive so he can build his unraid box, copy one drive across, take that drive over to his unraid box and add it to the pool (is that possible?) and repeat for each drive in his new pool. He's already got a box and an OS and drives. All he has to do is create a pool by installing one piece of software. I know what I'd rather do.