February 3, 201610 yr I can understand Limetech having the drive limit for all drives wether in the array or not as its unraid that allows you to passthough the drives in the first place. But what is a bit annoying is i have the basic license with 6 disks of which i use 1 cache 4 in the array and one unassigned for vm. I passthough the usb controller to the vms so i can hotswap etc. I had a usb flash drive plugged into the vm. I was away from home with family and needed to restart the unraid server. When i did this i couldnt start the array as it saw the flash drive as an additional drive taking me over the drive limit. So i couldnt start the array until i came home and unplugged the flash drive. After starting the array i could plug it back in. I think this should be fixed so maybe usb devices are not included.
February 4, 201610 yr There have been a lot of discussions r.e. the device limits ... but it's seems unlikely they're going to be changed. The simple fix for your case is to upgrade to a Plus license. This will double your device limits (from 6 to 12), which should be plenty for the foreseeable future. Note that the device limits are removed altogether with a Pro license.
February 4, 201610 yr There have been a lot of discussions r.e. the device limits ... but it's seems unlikely they're going to be changed. I think that the issue here is not that the device limits should be changed but that USB devices (which can never become part of the array) should be discounted from the device count for licensing purposes.
February 4, 201610 yr There have been a lot of discussions r.e. the device limits ... but it's seems unlikely they're going to be changed. I think that the issue here is not that the device limits should be changed but that USB devices (which can never become part of the array) should be discounted from the device count for licensing purposes. There was some discussion about allowing USB devices to participate in the array, especially now that USB3 can be fast enough to not be an issue. We'll see what 6.2 has in that regard. Soon.
February 4, 201610 yr Author Usb hardrives are one thing and yes could be used in array. But I had an 8 gig flash drive attached which took me over my licence. I think flash drives shouldnt be counted. Yes it would have been fine if I didnt restart the server, but I needed to then I couldnt access my data on the array for a few days as I was away from home at the time. It was annoying to have my server disabled because I left a flash drive plugged in!!! But that said I love unraid its a great product, but really think it would be even better if this was fixed at some time
February 4, 201610 yr Understand the frustration ... but note that you could have actually resolved this remotely by simply upgrading to a Plus license and copying the new key file to the flash. The system would have then rebooted and started just fine.
February 4, 201610 yr Author Understand the frustration ... but note that you could have actually resolved this remotely by simply upgrading to a Plus license and copying the new key file to the flash. The system would have then rebooted and started just fine. Yes i will upgrade my license soon as i want to add some new drives anyway. I am happy with unraid and think its very good value. However when i had the problem i had only been using unraid for 2 weeks and thought it had gone wrong saying i needed to upgrade my license already when i had not added any harddrives. I just think it would be in the interest of limetech to change flash drives as a count to drives in the license, as people new to unraid may well be put off by this, thinking as i did it was an error. I see no reason for a usb flash drive to count as a licenced drive and is of no benefit to limetechs business model to have it as such.
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