Hi,

 

If I buy Plus or Pro. Does that need to be paid for again with future upgrade versions e.g V7?

 

 

Hi,

 

If I buy Plus or Pro. Does that need to be paid for again with future upgrade versions e.g V7?

No one knows for sure, but past experience says not.

Even if there were a modest upgrade fee, I'd pay it in a heartbeat.

Even if there were a modest upgrade fee, I'd pay it in a heartbeat.

 

+1

 

I would have paid extra for dual parity, for example. It amuses me that people spend a lot of money on hardware and then worry over the trifling amount they have to pay for the software licence.

Even if there were a modest upgrade fee, I'd pay it in a heartbeat.

 

+1

 

I would have paid extra for dual parity, for example. It amuses me that people spend a lot of money on hardware and then worry over the trifling amount they have to pay for the software licence.

I haven't seen an official statement saying dual parity will be free after the beta is over. I suspect it will be, but there were rumblings in the past about a modest fee to enable the dual parity feature.

 

It is very strange to me how people complain about spending a very small percentage of the cost of a server for the software license. Apparently just because you can take the time and replicate almost all of the functionality of unraid for free, they can't see that the huge amount of time and hassle to actually implement and manage it on an ongoing basis has value.

 

Unraid's docker and VM manager are very close to being the only game in town for ease of use and functionality.

I haven't seen an official statement saying dual parity will be free after the beta is over. I suspect it will be, but there were rumblings in the past about a modest fee to enable the dual parity feature.

 

Surely, if that were the plan it would have been announced at the same time as the release of the first public beta. It would be very unfair otherwise - effectively using people to iron out the bugs for free and then stinging them. I don't think it will happen. I seem to remember the suggestion of a modest additional fee to enable dual parity was in response to the discovery that at least two of the potential algorithms are patented and it was believed (erroneously, as it turned out, thankfully) that all the free algorithms needed all disks to spin during writes.