nonproductive Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 Hello! I've been running Unraid Pro on an old server for about 7 years now and I recently purchased a Lincstation N1 which comes with a "basic" license. I looked on the help website - with the changes to licensing the help page is confusing then did a quick search of the forums here - but could not find the answers to the following questions. I am hoping you can help: 1) Is the included Basic license for 1 year of updates or "lifetime"? 2) Other than the number of drives, is there any difference between the included license and the Pro license I use on my current Unraid box? I have a second pro license that is grandfathered as lifetime and never used - I'm trying to decide if I should activate the N1 with that or the included license. Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide! Quote Link to comment
Solution SpencerJ Posted July 9 Solution Share Posted July 9 1 minute ago, nonproductive said: I am hoping you can help: 1) Is the included Basic license for 1 year of updates or "lifetime"? Basic is an older, grandfathered license. The new equivalent is called "Starter". 2 minutes ago, nonproductive said: 2) Other than the number of drives, is there any difference between the included license and the Pro license I use on my current Unraid box? No. Quote Link to comment
nonproductive Posted July 9 Author Share Posted July 9 (edited) Thanks Spencer - is the included Basic license a lifetime license or 1 year of updates only? Or maybe a better way to phrase that would be to ask if the included Basic license becomes a "legacy" lifetime license even though it is being activated after the license changes? I just re read your message, and you already answered this. Thank you! Sounds like the basic license is perfect for the N1. Edited July 9 by nonproductive 1 Quote Link to comment
SpencerJ Posted July 9 Share Posted July 9 5 minutes ago, nonproductive said: Thanks Spencer - is the included Basic license a lifetime license or 1 year of updates only? Or maybe a better way to phrase that would be to ask if the included Basic license becomes a "legacy" lifetime license even though it is being activated after the license changes? I just re read your message, and you already answered this. Thank you! Sounds like the basic license is perfect for the N1. you are welcome! Unraid 7 also makes the array optional which might be best if you're running all SSDs. Here's a video: There should be a follow on video showing no array, all-SSD pools out soon. Quote Link to comment
nonproductive Posted July 9 Author Share Posted July 9 Ooo! This is good stuff. How did I miss this video before I bought the Lincstation? My original plan was (2) 2.5" spinning disks for parity and 4 NVME for data - but I like this idea better and already have the 2.5" SSDs. My use case for the N1 is intermediary photo storage and browsing. The workflow would be to copy from cameras/portable drives to N1 for fast access/organizing and then scheduled rclone jobs or maybe Syncthing for archiving from N1 to the main Unraid server with 90TB of space - so I like the idea of the array being optional. I think I'll reset it and start clean that way. You rock! 1 Quote Link to comment
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