[joshstrange]

UnRaid and Synology user here and I completely agree with all your points. The knowledge that at worst I will lose the data on just 1 disk (or 2 if I fail during a rebuild) is very calming. If not for UnRaid there is no way I could manage the size of the media volume I maintain (from a time, energy, and money perspective). I mean if you know ZFS well and trust yourself then more power to you but UnRaid and friends fill a real gap.

[esyir]

The funny thing here is that I went with zfs lately because it saved me money. As a poor student trying to maximise gb/$, raid6/lk was the move balance point between capacity and redundancy.