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Thanks for the input. As a marketer, I would love this but you would (probably0 be surprised how sensitive people are to mass email. Even with the newsletter, people must double opt-in and I still face backlash at times 🤷‍♂️

I would suggest signing up for our newsletter to be notified. Sending mass unsolicited emails to our entire user base for this goes against our privacy policy.

Thank you for listening 😃

This will still be possible. You will still be able to upgrade your Basic or Plus licenses under that (soon to be) old system.

There has never been a promise that prices would remain fixed forever. The prices for nearly everything has gone up. We are not immune to that. But, you do have a chance to buy now and be immune from these prices changes.

yes. Please see here:

We understand all of your privacy concerns as it's not clear what the external page does with this data, and it's not clear if the user is aware of this data being sent. We did include a statement in the blog post that accompanied the release: We're very similar to our users in that we value our privacy, and we're not interested in collecting data that we don't need. We're also very aware of the trust our users place in us, and we take that very seriously. With this in mind, please see our updated blog where we have done our best to address some of the FAQs asked here: https://unraid.net/blog/new-update-os-tool

Update: We've added additional info around the upcoming changes via some FAQs taken from the community: https://unraid.net/blog/pricing-change

3.7.24 Update: Caveat Emptor: Multiple users have run into GUID conflicts with these devices. I will attempt again to contact Eluteng and ask about this to see if this was a recent manufacturing change or a one-off "bag batch". Another option/alternative to USBs that we've been internally testing and vetting are mSATA adapters/drives: This USB mSATA adapter (~$10) appears to provide unique GUIDs for Unraid: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VP2WH73/ This 32GB mSATA drive works with the above adapter (~$15): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07543SDVX/ To avoid having the adapter hang off the back of the machine, these can allow you to mount it inside your case (depending on your system): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000IV6S9S/ https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BRVBQVW/ Important notes/caveats: The mSATA drive does not come pre-partitioned, so you have to create one yourself. Windows sees it as a hard disk, not a removable drive, so the USB Creator might not write to it and you may need to use the manual method. The USB Creator worked fine from a Mac for me. While we're not officially officially recommending these just yet, multiple members of the Unraid team are running OS instances off of this exact set up. We hope to have a full blog/video on this alternative soon. You can use them for Unraid VMs too, just be sure to configure "USB 3.0 (qemu XHCI)" in the VM template (even if the host only has USB 2 hardware!). As always, if you are running the same make/model of drive for both the host and the guest you will need the "USB Manager" plugin to pass the drive to the VM. Major props to @AgentXXL over in our Discord server for doing much of the early testing on this.

Here you go!

On this very special episode of the Uncast Show, we are joined by the Founder and CEO of Lime Technology, Tom Mortensen @limetech, and Co-CEO Tiffany Jones @tiffanyj to talk about the origins of Unraid OS, the evolution of the product over the past 18+ years, and some upcoming changes to the company to better align the product and user's desires in Unraid 7 and beyond. Tom and Tiffany share their personal career journeys and take us down memory lane as Unraid incorporated VMs and Docker containerization, GPU passthrough (a decision that dramatically shifted the course of the company with Linus Tech Tips), made key hires to expand the team, and talk about some key projects and initiatives that got the company where it is today. The conversation shifts gears to the future and goes into the upcoming changes to Unraid's pricing model for new licenses and why this change is crucial and necessary for sustaining the company and improving the product for all in the years to come. Please refer to our blog for full details on the upcoming pricing change. Wrapping up the episode, we'll get a first look at Unraid 7 and explore some exciting future OS features and projects such as making the unRAID array optional, integrating and maintaining plugins into the OS, VM Snapshots and cloning, the "Hardware Database," the "My Friends Network," a new Unraid website, a public, open-source Unraid API and much, much more. We truly hope you enjoy this episode.

Coming soon-- I'll link to it here when it is live.

We are gathering common FAQs around updates, privacy, this, and more, and will release those all together.

It is not a subscription model but you do you. Thanks for your support over the years

Apologies- Please contact support and they will get you settled.

Per https://unraid.net/blog/new-update-os-tool, We state: While we believe this is accurate and still holds true, we are re-reviewing and will come out with a more detailed response to provide further clarity.

No.

Minor Updates are included under the new policy.

I'm not understanding what part wasn't answered. Please advise

Please take this to reddit.

No. Thanks for the kinds words.

Thank you. A lot of time, thought and money went into the decision.

Yes, this will be possible. More details to come.

A blog with more details surrounding these upcoming changes can be found here: https://unraid.net/blog/pricing-change

@ljm42 or @elibosley can you take a look here please?