Unraid lessons learnt?

[Avalon]

Licensing | Unraid Docs

Do I own my software license?

docs.unraid.net

You can replace your key once every 12 months using their automated system

Just to clarify, you can automatically replace a licence every 12 months yourself, if you need to do it more than that (you’d be seriously unlucky to have that many drive failures, but it happens), the process is manual requiring an email, you are still given a new key. In the interim, you just grab a demo key with full functionality anyway, then replace it with your new licence key.

I’ve been an UNRaid user for more years than I care to think about, Tom was still answering the emails back then, I have replaced keys, but never because a USB drive has failed, my last 512MB key was only retired this year as space was becoming an issue.

 

[DHR]

Well, reluctantly, and grumpily I've just pushed myself to grab the lifetime license, it's done, I'll move on and stop being grumpy about it

 

[Avalon]

Well, reluctantly, and grumpily I've just pushed myself to grab the lifetime license, it's done, I'll move on and stop being grumpy about it

14 years ago I recall feeling the same way about spending $89 on two pro licences, looking back now, it was an absolute bargain. I hope in 14 years time, you feel the same

 

[n30_mkii]

Yeah not a fan of the new licence model myself

 

[jamief]

Bought a lifetime license, haven't regretted it.

 

[Jimbeam3678]

Thread revival via a google search. What's the recommended licence route nowadays the one year and then see how the land lies and but the lifetime one or leave it without any more updates? Or just buy the lifetime licence now before it goes up?

 

[Begbie]

Thread revival via a google search. What's the recommended licence route nowadays the one year and then see how the land lies and but the lifetime one or leave it without any more updates? Or just buy the lifetime licence now before it goes up?

Will you need updates?

Mines out of date, not had any issues

 

[Jimbeam3678]

Will you need updates?

Mines out of date, not had any issues

I guess that's the question I'm trying to understand, only been using it for 10 days so it's difficult to say.

 

[Hunterlit]

I bought the lifetime straight away, I tend to not update things straight away though, just to let any bugs get ironed out.

 

[Jimbeam3678]

What have they brought to the table in say the last 18 months? their roadmap is way out of date

 

[Hunterlit]

What have they brought to the table in say the last 18 months? their roadmap is way out of date

I can't say I've kept track on that tbh. UNRAID does everything I need it to do on the sytem it runs on. Runs VMs great, unfortunately the same couldn't be said for TrueNas as I was going to use that.

 

[Begbie]

I guess that's the question I'm trying to understand, only been using it for 10 days so it's difficult to say.

If your setting up plex or jelly fin on it and it works. Your not going to mess with it. Dockers still get updated, so it won't matter.

Im not bothering , cant see what I need changed currently.

I just reinstalled today, mt licence out of date for updates. But on latest version.

Not really sure how it works, assume it won't update from now on.

 

[Avalon]

The only licence that makes any financial sense is lifetime, after 4-6 additional years of updates, you're past break even vs starter/unleashed + annual subscription. I don't see the sense in running an unpatched OS for a few years to save money, then again i'm 15 years into this, so what do I know?

 

[Jimbeam3678]

In my head I was going to take the years licence and then take stock 12 months from now. As mentioned about come 2-3 years time, you'll wish you bought the lifetime license, as with Plex....

 

[b0rn2sk8]

I would just buy a lifetime and call it done.

That said I don’t actually use Unraid anymore, I got about frustrated with the GUI and documentation being written for system admins which I am not. That said it’s absolutely fantastic for those who don’t want to buy matched drives, the only real downside was storage speed because of this.

I just run a UGREEN NAS these days, KISS and all that.

 

[Jimbeam3678]

Can you do everything on the UGREEN NAS that you can on Unraid? My ultimate plan is getting to a position where I am happy with it and leave it alone. What were you trying to do with Unraid out of interest?

 

[WiGgLr]

In my head I was going to take the years licence and then take stock 12 months from now. As mentioned about come 2-3 years time, you'll wish you bought the lifetime license, as with Plex....

This is what I did, after a month I know I'll get the lifetime and probably should have right away