Hey Mark,

I was thinking of the latter (in which case Syno DSM would be super), but the former could work too as a second best solution, provided drives are all exposes to Windows Server individually, so that Windows could manage the RAID.

Also, a simple multi-drive enclosure still would need to be good and reliable, as it does introduce a backplane, which ends up being a single point of failure for all drives. Again, that's why I was originally thinking of Synology. But still, I am open to recommendations.