UNRAID Pricing Shakeup: NEW Licenses Explained + ZFS Speedtests

Man, I don't know how I let this sneak up on me. Thank you for taking the time to make this video! Updated my license!

Thanks for the info

Thanks Travis.

I'd love to see more of your Unraid content. How you manage your containers, how you back them up, which containers you use, etc. Keep it coming!

I'm glad that ZFS is an option, the new pricing model is fair considering what you get in exchange.

Thanks Travis, I don’t mind paying, it’s just not clear to me why would I switch from proxmox machine running my pfsense, opnsense, home assistant, jellyfin, media vault and few other play machines! Am I missing something?

Can you compare it with TrueNAS ?

Is there a link to upgrade. I have the pro and could use the lifetime.

zfs compression=on is lz4 compression, you should not see any measurable cpu impact from using this, if you want nicer compression and keep it reasonably fast, zstd, but not useful for already compressed files like movies/music

Unraid love. ❤

So tempted to switch back to unraid.

Annnndddd I finally bought an unraid key.

Huh. A company willing to ignore the GPL has no scruples. What a surprise.

fk, didnt see it in time :/ now my plus to pro upgrade is 30 bucks more expensive

They should have done a long time ago. I paid like 59$ (I think) for a pro license back in 2007ish! It was not even close to the same software it is now!

I hope synology don't pull any of this crap.

The only good thing about unpaid was their array file system. The rest if just blah. Not worth it to pay those prices much less an annual fee.

I'm an avid selfhoster and I've covered my reasoning on why you shouldn't choose it, but just to recap my video: You are booting from USB and turning a perfectly good USB stick into DRM'd garbage... why? Want to use mixed drive sizes... snapraid and mergerfs. At least that way you know how it works instead of whatever shenanigans UnRAID is doing to accomplish it. In my opinion, OMV is best for selfhosters, it's easy enough for beginners but it stays out of the way for the most part and allows you the freedom to work right with debian for advanced users. TrueNAS Scale if you are primarily concerned with storage needs and you have the RAM for ZFS. Proxmox if you have server grade hardware or otherwise strong system resources. But I would never even consider UnRAID... it offers nothing over OMV and other alternatives, and the USB DRM is asinine in my opinion. Not to mention, why pay for licensing when there are much better OSS alternatives?

Sorry, that is a rip-off. Nope, not with me! I will opt for Synology!

Welcome to Proxmox 😂