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  • Unraid is switching to annual subscription pricing, offering Starter, Unleashed, and Lifetime licenses with optional extension fees for updates.
  • Existing Basic, Plus, and Pro licenses can be upgraded to higher levels of perpetual licenses.
  • This change may increase revenue for Lime Technology but could also make other NAS providers more appealing to users.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (20 children)

I'm sure there are reasons for using Unraid but the original funky raid alternative they marketed has always struck me as extremely fishy. The kind of solution developed by folks who didn't know enough about the best practices in storage and decided to roll their own. I guess people like web interfaces too. Personally I'd never use it. Get Debian Stable or Ubuntu LTS, learn some Docker, Ansible and Prometheus, deploy and never touch until you break it or the hardware breaks. Throw Webmin on it if you like dancing bears too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

TrueNAS is a better option for purely a NAS

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Than Unraid or DIY? I've considered SCALE but I've never used it. I know they use ZFS so it will almost certainly eat less data than Unraid's homegrown raid.

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