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You are on a trip to disaster. Trust me, I do this for a living. One day you're going to have a horrible surprise. I once had a guy get fired right there on a support call with me, he lost years worth of data because he wasn't following good archival processes.
For consumer stuff:
If you are running a business, definitely go with a good NAS, AND buy a tape library and get into a routine of rotating out the tapes and storing them off site (tapes are no use to you if your building get broken into, or burns down). And, use cloud storage too.
Just a point of clarification: Don't use RAID 5 for more than 2-4 TB. The rebuild takes so long that the mean-time-between read errors statistic basically guarantees a read error while rebuilding, which may cause the controller to trash the array.
That and rebuilding that much data might push one of the drives over the edge anyway.
UNRAID for larger amounts?