Unraid lessons learnt?

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I'm toying with getting an old PC configured running unraid, but hadn't realised it's a paid product, as cheap as it is.

I dabbled with truenas a while back but then didn't do anything with it, now have a few small servers I need to run so it's time to revisit and I see unraid coming up a lot.

For those that run it for storage and vms do you have any lessons learnt the hard way you can share?
 
Demon said:
Their pricing page (https://unraid.net/pricing) as of today states:
Buy Once, Use for Life.
No subscription. No hidden fees.

so get it whilst it's still hot!
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I wish I had! I fell ill in march and missed this. Hmmmm, TrueNAS is back on the cards for me then sadly I was planning on just mixing used disks with unraid, but now, wondering whether it wasn't the right decision to start with.

If I could get 8-10 devices on the starter license I would have been happy with that and 12 months upgrades, but the structure of going from the middle tier to the top one is that close... its probably worth just going for the top tier right away.
 
It's a rough one for me now, I like the idea of adding disks I pickup in, extending for dump storage and that but... in a way the additional spend puts me off now.

Its enough to shift me onto TrueNAS again, only real reason I wasn't a fan is I couldn't believe you couldn't easily add a disk to a vdev and extend it... need to mull it over.

I take it unraid don't do sale/promos anymore either :o
 
So as usual life got in the way of me progressing this, timing however is good given that there appears to be an unraid sale shortly, so if you found yourself in the same position as me, keep an eye on it!
 
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Any time, the price was my initial delay on dropping the cash on it, so even if it's £20-30 off it's better than nothing
 
So, bit baffled off that they've not done anything with that lifetime license :confused:

I always want os/security updates permanently if I'm shelling out that sort of money.

What are other people doing?

Edit - So I'd have to be using it for 5 years to get to the cost of the lifetime license if I bought updates each year.

Interested to hear what people tend to do about updates?
 
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Nah I do get that it just sucks a little really so wish TN supported mixed drives like unraid does.

What's the situation if your usb media dies and you need to put unraid back on there? Presume there is a way to do that? If not, another reason to go for a cheaper license!
 
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