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Unraid Moves to Annual Subscription Pricing Model (www.servethehome.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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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] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

How does UnRAID Compare to TrueNAS Core (which is free, and backed by what seems to be a much bigger/more commercial organization)?

I used UnRAID years ago, but didn't like booting from a USB drive - it was problematic and made me nervous.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's much simpler/easier to use, and supports expanding storage by adding more drives. More like your typical user friendly NAS like Synology.

TrueNAS can give you almost the same end result (minus being able to expand storage easily), but just takes a lot more experience and knowledge to pull it off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Unraid uses a very simplistic scheme where you throw together a bunch of drives and one parity drive. The parity drive needs to be as big as the largest normal drive and holds recovery checksums for all the other.

Basically you can lose any one disk and still be able to recover the data, and the disks don't have to be the same size.

You can achieve the same with snapraid + mergerfs if you want.

TrueNAS uses distributed parity schemes so it has same size requirements, but it also protects against bitrot and has other extra features.