May 20, 20251 yr Good morning,I am planning on purchasing a license for Unraid following my trial and I wanted to confirm how the lifetime membership works. Given that the whole operating system runs on a USB stick, am I okay to upgrade the main components of the NAS over time or will that be seen as a different device? I eventually plan on replacing the motherboard, CPU and Ram over time but the HDDs will remain the same (until failure obviously). If that's the case, then in future if I want to use a PC case that supports 12+ drives, that is fine too as long as the OS is only running on one device with the original array?Many thanks!
May 20, 20251 yr 15 minutes ago, Cable said:the whole operating system runs on a USB stickA better way to think of this is the USB stick contains the "firmware" of the OS. The OS actually runs in RAM.The license is for the specific USB stick, which can be used on any hardware. Many of us have changed hardware more than once. It must be connected while the OS is running on whatever hardware, since it also contains your configuration (all settings from the webUI).
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