May 10, 201214 yr It would be nice to see the number of drives increased in the PLUS version as well, as the difference between the PRO and PLUS versions is getting huge.
May 12, 201214 yr It would be nice to see the number of drives increased in the PLUS version as well, as the difference between the PRO and PLUS versions is getting huge. How about paying $59 for a Pro upgrade. Tom works hard on this stuff and if 6 drives isn't enough there is a very simple fix
May 12, 201214 yr Author It would be nice to see the number of drives increased in the PLUS version as well, as the difference between the PRO and PLUS versions is getting huge. How about paying $59 for a Pro upgrade. Tom works hard on this stuff and if 6 drives isn't enough there is a very simple fix Because I don't need that many drives! The PRO version keeps getting drives added but the PLUS version doesn't. Upgrading from the free version to the PLUS version for $69 only adds an additional 3 drives, for $50 more another 15+ drives are added. It seems as though the PLUS version is being left behind. Anyway, as previously mentioned this isn't a v5-rc3 issue.
May 24, 201214 yr Yep I agree, nuke this thread haha. Pony up for the Pro version, give Tom some support. I purchased 2 Pro licenses and it was a hell of a deal.
May 24, 201214 yr Another one in agreement, here. Even though I'm still working with a 5-drive array (6 drives total), my server has 15 hot swap, tray-less, bays. As soon as I add one more drive to the array, I will purchase the Pro upgrade in preparation for further expansion. I think that the plus licence, with a capacity for 15+TB of storage, is extremely good value. Anyone requiring more storage really needs to accept that unRAID is worth every cent of its licence fee.
May 24, 201214 yr It would be nice to see the number of drives increased in the PLUS version as well, as the difference between the PRO and PLUS versions is getting huge. The reason it's set at 6 is because that is the most common number of on-board motherboard ports. So you can put together an unRaid server using just a motherboard, no additional controllers. Also, with just 6 drives you can put together a server that's relatively easy to maintain without drive cages, and the cabling is reasonable. Once you start increasing the storage density, you're spending alot more money on a better h/w configuration such as additional controllers, drive cages, bigger power supply, etc, so the price of the key, as a percentage of the total system cost, doesn't change much.
May 24, 201214 yr I only have 2 data drives plus parity and went ahead and ordered the pro version. I hope to max out that drive capacity someday
May 24, 201214 yr It would be nice to see the number of drives increased in the PLUS version as well, as the difference between the PRO and PLUS versions is getting huge. The reason it's set at 6 is because that is the most common number of on-board motherboard ports. So you can put together an unRaid server using just a motherboard, no additional controllers. Also, with just 6 drives you can put together a server that's relatively easy to maintain without drive cages, and the cabling is reasonable. Once you start increasing the storage density, you're spending alot more money on a better h/w configuration such as additional controllers, drive cages, bigger power supply, etc, so the price of the key, as a percentage of the total system cost, doesn't change much. Tom, If you ever come to AUS I want to buy you a beer
May 25, 201214 yr So are you saying that Tom doen't want to sell the Plus version? If that's the case, it should be done away with. I have the Pro version, (actually 2) And I am with those that would like to see the plus version to have more support. I believe that if the Pro version gets bumped to 24 drives, that the Plus version should go to 12. (I think that half the drive count is about right, so at the current 20 drive Pro, it should be 10 drives for the Plus.) There has to be some incentive to buy the pro license
May 25, 201214 yr The reason it's set at 6 is because that is the most common number of on-board motherboard ports. This is the logic that defines the pricing model. The evenly-spaced-drive-count-for-each-tier model is not based on anything other than a nice mathematical scale. He doesn't have to explain it at length just because it isn't convenient for people who want 10 data drives. I have capacity for a maximum of 10 data drives in my build, and have no intention of expanding beyond that because drive capacities continue to increase. I didn't blink at paying for the PRO version, because paying 5% or less of the overall build costs for software is incredibly inexpensive. Seriously, if you guys can afford $100 for a hard drive, you can add an extra $10 per drive up to the 6 drive maximum (6 x $10 = $60) and have paid for the PRO version.
May 26, 201214 yr Tom's right, although I do see a few motherboards out there coming with more than 6 SATA ports onboard (mind you, using added chips for the extra ports). Maybe as more motherboards start coming with 8 ports, the plus version could logically be set at that - but really, once you've got six 2TB or six 3TB drives full of stuff, you've obviously got an issue with keeping large collections of stuff (like I have.... server #2 is in build currently with 5.0rc3 and 5 3TB drives)... so pro version is the only way to go once you get to the "complaining about 6 drives only" level, in my humble opinion.
May 26, 201214 yr Plus supports 7 drives - 6 array (1 parity, 5 data), plus a Cache drive. It's also the most popular key.
May 27, 201214 yr There is food for discussion to make this number 8 (to fit the common maximum native limit of higher end motherboards) and to allow any of this 8 to be any type i.e. 8 data no parity, 7 data+1 parity + no cache. This in my opinion would put this debate to rest.
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