I know this isn't the answer you want but ditch windows. There's a million better ways to do it better on BSD or linux

As title states. I'm looking for a drivebender replacement. I've been eyeing drivepool and it's probably what I'm going with but I'd like to know what else might be out there. This is for a JBoD setup. Backups happen to offsite location, so I'm not worried about backups.

I think my main thing to is, if something breaks my wife can figure it out even without me around. If I go to BSD or linux...well cards are off the table at that point.

It does but it's not great from what I've read for jbod setups. Drivebender has been awesome for over a decade for me. It balances everything and even lets me keep local backups, so if one drive dies it's got a copy on another drive.

That's fair enough. I just accepted that I'm always going to have to fix the computer issues no matter what. So I just make it easier on myself.

if one drive dies it's got a copy on another drive

Do you want JBOD or a RAID? Cause dealing with disk failure is a feature of RAID

I don't really need speed. RAID is for people who like to spend money on same size/speed drives

Most RAID levels are for redundancy, not speed and software RAID doesn't need drives of the same size.

The RAID I'm talking about requires same size and speed of drives to be optimal. Otherwise it goes with the smallest and slowest drive in the array.

You talking about unraid?

I'm talking about software RAID, for example btrfs.