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Also, not everyone may care about software updates, just look at the amount of people who still use W7 as their main OS.

The announcement said the new plus plan equivalent will be around the same price. For that reason as someone who's looking at a spare license, I'd say either go for basic or pro. This way you either have a relatively cheap upgrade path to plus or you can just sit back and relax.....touch wood. As for the storage limit, personally I'm trying to avoid having large drives these days due to the hassle of dealing with things like drive failures. Instead I try to keep WORM content (e.g. movies) on smaller 2.5" drives and only using my larger drives for data which requires faster throughput e.g. weekly backups.

I still consider it a gamble either way, if the new Pro license is significantly higher then the savings from upgrading the basic license become minimal. That said, is it still relatively simple to swap licenses around by just swapping the USB sticks? Because that's one potential way around it (my backup server has a pro license from a sale, but only has 7 drives attached, so I could upgrade the basic to plus).

My problem is that I don't know if I'll ever need a third license, if someone had said definitively the upgrade costs are the same then buying a basic license is a no brainer for me to have spare, but at $130 for something I may never use makes me hesitant.

Yeah I'd like to know this as well since I might buy a basic key to have for potential future use, I don't want to buy it and then find it costs $200 to upgrade to pro.

One minor issue I had but kludged, if you want a completely local setup, I had to move wimboot over to the asset folder, otherwise it couldn't load it. I had this issue, although I don't know exactly what fixed it (presuming it's not an intermittent thing) Either starting from scratch (including removing appdata) and testing with the default script fixed it (later starting from scratch again but this time updating it now worked), changing it to have a dedicated IP address (obviously updating the DHCP server as well) or just messing around fixed it somehow. There's a separate tftp docker image which may work, although I've not used it since pfsense has one as a plugin.

Anyone having issues with virtiofs and windows? I heard older versions were having issues and I'm wondering if they're still happening.

It’s been a while, but I think it was something like reported issues with user shares, smb, etc. when I looked it up. If anyone can confirm these work then I will just use symlinks instead.

Does anyone know an alternative to Unionfs which is supported on Unraid 11? I basically would like an equivalent to symlink which works on shares.

Just updated, the GUI is displaying ok now. Going to preclear now, thank you for the work.

NAME="loop0" TYPE="loop" SIZE="115998720" FSTYPE="squashfs" NAME="loop1" TYPE="loop" SIZE="18239488" FSTYPE="squashfs" NAME="loop2" TYPE="loop" SIZE="161061273600" FSTYPE="btrfs" NAME="loop3" TYPE="loop" SIZE="1073741824" FSTYPE="btrfs" NAME="sda" TYPE="disk" SIZE="0" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdb" TYPE="disk" SIZE="0" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdc" TYPE="disk" SIZE="0" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdd" TYPE="disk" SIZE="0" FSTYPE="" NAME="sde" TYPE="disk" SIZE="15816720384" FSTYPE="" NAME="sde1" TYPE="part" SIZE="15815671808" FSTYPE="vfat" NAME="sdf" TYPE="disk" SIZE="0" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdg" TYPE="disk" SIZE="0" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdh" TYPE="disk" SIZE="1500301910016" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdi" TYPE="disk" SIZE="5000981078016" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdi1" TYPE="part" SIZE="5000981028352" FSTYPE="xfs" NAME="sdj" TYPE="disk" SIZE="5000981078016" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdj1" TYPE="part" SIZE="5000981028352" FSTYPE="xfs" NAME="sdk" TYPE="disk" SIZE="4000787030016" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdk1" TYPE="part" SIZE="4000786980352" FSTYPE="xfs" NAME="sdl" TYPE="disk" SIZE="4000787030016" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdl1" TYPE="part" SIZE="1073741824000" FSTYPE="ntfs" NAME="sdl2" TYPE="part" SIZE="2927042232320" FSTYPE="ntfs" NAME="sdm" TYPE="disk" SIZE="4000787030016" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdm1" TYPE="part" SIZE="2199023255040" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdn" TYPE="disk" SIZE="10000831348736" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdn1" TYPE="part" SIZE="10000831299072" FSTYPE="xfs" NAME="sdo" TYPE="disk" SIZE="10000831348736" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdo1" TYPE="part" SIZE="10000831299072" FSTYPE="xfs" NAME="sdp" TYPE="disk" SIZE="10000831348736" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdp1" TYPE="part" SIZE="10000831299072" FSTYPE="" NAME="md1" TYPE="md" SIZE="10000831295488" FSTYPE="" NAME="md2" TYPE="md" SIZE="10000831295488" FSTYPE="" NAME="md3" TYPE="md" SIZE="10000831295488" FSTYPE="" NAME="md4" TYPE="md" SIZE="10000831295488" FSTYPE="" NAME="md5" TYPE="md" SIZE="10000831295488" FSTYPE="" NAME="md6" TYPE="md" SIZE="5000981024768" FSTYPE="" NAME="md7" TYPE="md" SIZE="5000981024768" FSTYPE="" NAME="md8" TYPE="md" SIZE="4000786976768" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdq" TYPE="disk" SIZE="10000831348736" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdq1" TYPE="part" SIZE="10000831299072" FSTYPE="xfs" NAME="sdr" TYPE="disk" SIZE="10000831348736" FSTYPE="" NAME="sdr1" TYPE="part" SIZE="10000831299072" FSTYPE="xfs" NAME="sds" TYPE="disk" SIZE="10000831348736" FSTYPE="" NAME="sds1" TYPE="part" SIZE="10000831299072" FSTYPE="xfs" NAME="nvme0n1" TYPE="disk" SIZE="1000204886016" FSTYPE="" NAME="nvme0n1p1" TYPE="part" SIZE="1000203837440" FSTYPE="xfs" 1500301910016

See attached, the affected drive is "SAMSUNG_HD154UI_S1XWJ1LZ105147 (sdh)". hp-svr-diagnostics-20220726-1533.zip

Are you running both at the same time? If so I've had issues when running multiple preclears and just ran one at a time.

Could anyone please tell me if an incorrect displayed disk size can cause problems? I'd like to preclear a 1.5TB HDD I have, but the Preclear GUI reports it as a 2TB. On the Unraid Main page it is listed as 1.50TB under unassigned devices. Plugin is fully up to date on unRAID 6.10.3.

I’ve actually been using an older SFF Sandisk cruzer fit for a few years now, haven’t had any issues myself…..so far. The main issue is that it’s going inside my old HP server (which has an internal USB-A) where there are no spare headers and I have plans for the rear ports. I might be able to rig something up or squeeze a ‘normal’ one in, but just buying an SFF drive was the easiest solution.

Any other recommended low profile USB drives, since apparently the Samsung have issues? I’m planning on setting up another server but my preferred USB port has height restrictions.

Just use a third party format utility such as minitool partition wizard free to format above 32GB on Windows or IIRC via cmd.exe but it can only do a ‘full’ format above 32GB.