Comment unRAID gets my vote (Score 1) 359
unRAID gets my vote for home use, at least. As the name suggests, it isn't actually RAID, but provides some of the same benefits while remaining more flexible. You can pool your drives. You can have no parity where if you lose a drive it is the same as it always was, you lose a drive and its data. You can have single parity, where a single drive failure is tolerated and is recovered from by simply replacing the dead drive and rebuilding from parity. And double parity gives you the same, but tolerates two drives failing at once. My non-critical home use data is kind of safe on it due to the redundancy, but I'd like to set up another unRAID machine with similar space to mirror it so I actually have a backup, even though next to none of it really matters if it would be lost. For the small amount of stuff I would not like to use, putting it on a couple different cloud storage sites is plenty for me. Even if I had a lot of data that I didn't want to lose I would feel comfortable with it on an unRAID box, and again, preferably with another similar machine to mirror it for backup purposes.