Wow this is an amazing explanation! I've been starting to lean towards UnRAID but I didn't realize their fault tolerance wasn't as vetted as my cohorts believe. I've been taking a painful option to keep an lvm on ubuntu for my drives, but I'm trying to get out of my mistake and build something for offsite so I can feel comfortable with redoing it all.

It's a lot cheaper in the long run to do an off site backup rig and just put it at a friend's house if you can. Google will be expensive.

I love this one. It works for youtube music as well