I bit the bullet and installed the 7.3 release candidate 2, and flashed it onto my (uGreen DXP4800+) 128gb boot drive.

It's working fine, the license transferred, and it looks like everything is going ok.

However, with the fact that we can now boot from an internal drive, I thought that would mean data configurations that used to get rebuilt on every USB drive boot would stay persistent on the /boot internal drive.

Apparently, that's not the case. It appears that every time I reboot my machine, Unraid gets "built fresh" in memory once again. So, I'm assuming the "always runs in RAM" thing is still a thing, even though it's booting from an internal SSD.

Do I have that right?

3 minutes ago, Led57 said:

I bit the bullet and installed the 7.3 release candidate 2, and flashed it onto my (uGreen DXP4800+) 128gb boot drive.

It's working fine, the license transferred, and it looks like everything is going ok.

However, with the fact that we can now boot from an internal drive, I thought that would mean data configurations that used to get rebuilt on every USB drive boot would stay persistent on the /boot internal drive.

Apparently, that's not the case. It appears that every time I reboot my machine, Unraid gets "built fresh" in memory once again. So, I'm assuming the "always runs in RAM" thing is still a thing, even though it's booting from an internal SSD.

Do I have that right?

Yes the model is still the same Unraid still runs from ram and the internal boot drive is similar to a flash drive storing configs and the bzfiles used at boot.

1 minute ago, SimonF said:

Yes the model is still the same Unraid still runs from ram and the internal boot drive is similar to a flash drive storing configs and the bzfiles used at boot.

Thanks, Simon!

I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't going crazy here and booting from some "ghost" USB drive I'd already removed