[What is your go-to HDD manufacturer?]

WD. Every Seagate drive I have ever bought has died after just over a year. My WD drives are pushing 5 years and are just trucking along with no issues. 

 

That being said, if the old drive warning issue is real I will be looking into a different vendor for drives. 

[Announcing New Unraid OS License Keys]

Glad I got my licenses before now. Going to upgrade my last license to pro. Won't be getting any more licenses. I refuse to get subscription service software. Everyone wants to go to this model. I don't understand how companies expect us to afford all these subscriptions.  

 

Don't get me wrong. I absolutely enjoy my unraid servers. Had 2 more planned.  Unraid is easy to use, works for my needs, and just works well with everything I have tossed on it. 

 

Just can't afford paying for subscriptions to all the software vendors for all the software I like to use. One of them wants 250.00 ( which I refuse to pay) a year. Just no. I'm not spending 1000's a year. I can live without. 

 

I wish them luck though.  I hope they don't loose too many customers from this.