Still on 4.7, thinking of upgrading

[Yulquen]

Been on 4.7 for years, also long time since I was updated on whats going on in Unraid development, so I have some questions:

 

- Is V5 abandoned, and V6 is the way to go now?

- Is V6 considered stable for day to day use?

- Have multiple parity disk scheme been implemented?  with larger and larger disks available, it would be nice.

 

Thanks for replies.

 

[Squid]

- Is V5 abandoned, and V6 is the way to go now?

Not exactly abandoned, but no further development is being done on it, and most new plugins, etc are v6 only. Not to mention that v6 can do so much more out of the box than v5 ever could (docker containers, notifications, UPS support, etc etc etc)  The only reason I can think of to choose v5 is if your current CPU does not support 64bit, or you have < 2Gig memory and are not willing to upgrade it.

- Is V6 considered stable for day to day use?

Yes

- Have multiple parity disk scheme been implemented?  with larger and larger disks available, it would be nice.

Not yet, but LT has implied that it is coming in 6.2