• 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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  • Nis@feddit.dkEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I may be misreading your post, but it seems like your argument against Unraid is that they “rolled their own” which is why you’d never use it and instead “roll your own”?

    • rentar42@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      I think the difference is at what level:

      • don’t implement your own storage redundancy system at the kernel level with a small team in a closed-source fashion, because that’s the kind of thing that needs many eyes, lots of experience and many millions of hours real-world usage to fully debug and make sure it work.
      • do build your own system by combining pre-existing technologies that are built by experienced teams and tested/vetted by wide/popular usage.

      I feel OPs critique has some truth to it. I personally would rather stay with raidz by zfs, exactly because of it’s open nature (yes, they too have bugs, nothing is perfect).