Software raid management

[xrapidx]

Finally getting round to this after various attempts, I was going with unRaid, but see its locked to a flash drive, and don't see myself wanting to spend R1500 if something goes wrong.

Does anyone have any experience with alternatives?
FreeNAX, FlexRAID, Snapraid, etc.?

My requirements are not optional:
1.) Redundancy
2.) Different size disks
3.) Extendibility.
4.) Read speed enough for HD content to at least two devices.

I am going to buy 3x 1TB drives to get started, and once up and running, start moving my content over from the current setup (all over the place) - and then adding the cleared disks.

I'm not too concerned about write speed.

 

[sapaz]

Which board are you using and OS? Some Motherboard Manufacture have built in Raid. It is slower than hardware RAID.

 

[xrapidx]

No clue - a 6 year old one I have lying around which has 10 SATA ports.

Although, hardware raid won't meet the requirements.

 

[xrapidx]

Snapraid is starting to look like a viable option - I can use my existing set-up as is... just add one or two parity drives