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Basic license to Pro: $79 Now $55.30 USD
Plus license to Pro: $49 Now $34.30 USD
30% off Unraid Pro License Upgrades: US$55.30 (~A$80) from Basic, US$34.30 (~A$50) from Plus @ Unraid
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LEurotimmy on 21/06/2022 - 22:27 unraid.net (621 clicks)
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Its sever software, like FreeNAS.
I have two servers at home running it, very easy to add drives (of different sizes) and each hard drive has its own filesystem, so you can technically take it out of a machine and read it on another PC.
Also has parity so if you lose a hdd you dont lose your entire server data.
Good for setting up home servers for media playing etc
It's a network attached storage server OS; it lets you turn an ordinary PC into a file server.
It provides a RAID 5 style parity disk functionality, where if a drive fails you can replace it, and it'll put the data back on using the parity disk (or disks). The difference between it and other RAID implementations is you can use different-sized disks; meaning if you have a bunch of drives lying around from upgrades you can use them in Unraid. The other difference is that each drive is formatted with a standard Unix file system, meaning if the PC fails you can plug those drives into a Linux box (Raspberry PI, router with a USB port, or PC booted from a USB drive so that it temporarily runs Linux) and get all of your data out; there's no RAID striping to worry about. The downside of that is that it's not as fast to read data from as a traditional RAID setup; but since your average hard drive can saturate a gigabit link that's not a problem for most people.
Also, it provides an excellent App Store style interface to a bunch of Dockerised apps; meaning you can install software on it in a way that's both easy, and so that software is contained (so it can't harm/misconfigure the server) as well as portable and can be moved to a different computer very easily.
It's very popular amongst people who have large video and music collections, and who need a cheap way of storing them. Linus from Linus Tech Tips has an Unraid server to store completed videos on, for example - it's cheaper than their editing storage, but access isn't as quick.
Unraid is god's gift to personal server solutions
I'm interested in using unraid in the future - can I buy a discounted key now for later use? And do these discounts happen often?
Don't recall the last time I heard of an UnRAID sale, that said, I'm not on the hunt since buying my license. I assume it's a fairly infrequent occurrence though.
Yup, your key is yours forever - so you can buy and hold.
This is the first time I've heard of them having a discount in the 4 + years I've been using Unraid.
edit: Don't see discounts on the pricing, just for the upgrades
Do you think it’s only for those who already held a license before the sale started? Or will it work if I buy a Basic ($59) now, then upgrade to Pro ($55.30)?
Can’t say for sure but I think you’d need a basic license first. Could always try
That said basic and pro relate to the number of disks supported, not features. So if your first server will have 6 or more disks you’ll need pro. But if it is 5 or less you can use basic and grow it from there
Sure you don’t save on this deal but might be better that way than buying it for the future
@[Deactivated]: Would agree with this. I have the plus version, and doubt I'll go past the 12-drive limit - so i've decided to give it a pass. I reckon the only time you'll need Pro is if you're a true data hoarder or you run off cache mostly.
Specifically, one advantage these days due to falling SSD prices is that you can almost exclusively run your server off cache(still need at least one drive in the main array). Since SSDs are lower capacity in general, you may end up needing more drives.
Does unraid do checksums so you can repair from parity yet?
You can repair whole drives from parity; I don't think it does individual files yet.
If you had a problem with a file you could pull the drive and replace it, and it'll rebuild from parity.
If you have parity scheduled to run on a schedule, it should correct damaged files. Unless it’s been written to parity that is, which I think becomes a backup question rather than parity…depending on the use case
Unraid is better than DSM if you are a Linux user.
Proxmox w/ ZFS vs UnRAID. Opinions?
The main advantage of UnRaid is the flexibility in HDDs (mix and match, use your old drive etc.).
I debated this several times before setting up my NAS, but decided on UnRaid in the end. The performance is sufficient for me as a home user. YMMVYou can do exactly that with ZFS on Proxmox as well. Not sure how it's different?
Unraid has a very cool and simple to use docker setup if you’re into containers.
ZFS doesn't support mixed sized drives getting basically 100% of the capacity and parity.
Eg, with Unraid you can have 2 x 8tb drives, 3x 10tb drives, and end up with 26TB of usable and 20TB in parity, all double drive failure protected, even if say all 3 10TB drives fail you end up with the data on the 2 x 8tb being 'safe'.
It does this at the cost of performance, there's no striping of data.
ZFS is much better if you can throw a VDEV at a time of drives into it.
Unraid is much better at really crappy hardware being thrown at it one random sized drive at a time.
I freaking love Unraid. Being able to use it as a home server and do some light gaming on it via a VM with GPU passthrough is amazing.
It ends up being cheaper to buy the Basic and upgrade to Pro ($114.3) vs Pro ($129). Not bad for new users and old users wanting to upgrade.
Cost me $88AUD via PayPal.
Happy Birthday to me! A Plus upgrade would have been enough but meh!
To upgrade, or not to upgrade? That is the question.
contemplating for a while whether to purchase Unraid, or rock TrueNAS scale… hmm.. good deal OP thanks.
If you have all the same sized drives, and don't plan on adding them one at a time. TrueNAS Scale is drastically faster, and free. Unraid's special sauce is just the ability to add drives one at a time and get the most space out of mixed sizes of drives.
Yeah good point, I've only invested in 2x 12tb drives so far so i can continue with that size for the future… I think i want to have TrueNas Scale sit under Proxmox aswell too…
I don't know why you'd run both Proxmox and TrueNas Scale on the same hardware. You can do docker and VMs on TrueNas Scale as is. Or you can just do ZFS on Proxmox….
TrueNAS is vastly superior. Unraid is a toy; flexible and fun, but nothing compared to enterprise ready solutions from iXsystems like TrueNAS Core and Scale. If you want unparalleled data protection and stability, ZFS is the only correct choice.
What the hell is Unraid? I spent 5 minutes on their website but that's just a bunch of buzzwords