Re: Checking the Pro upgrade device limit... or not.

[Lev]

Need some clarification. I've read in other posts that Pro license is unlimited, yet I also see the same '30' slots limit in the GUI. How do I get that limit to go higher to be unlimited?

[JonathanM]

Need some clarification. I've read in other posts that Pro license is unlimited, yet I also see the same '30' slots limit in the GUI. How do I get that limit to go higher to be unlimited?

You don't. The device limit being unlimited refers to the number of attached devices, not limits to the size of the parity protected array. The lower licenses limit the number of devices that can be attached to the server, assigned or not.

 

You can use the remaining devices as cache pool or unassigned devices.

 

From https://lime-technology.com/buy-it/

As of unRAID 6.2, that limit is increased to support up to 30 array devices (28 data and 2 parity) and up to 24 cache devices for a grand total of up to 54 assignable devices. Devices beyond the assignable limit can still be utilized directly with other unRAID features such as virtual machines or the unassigned devices plugin.

[Lev]

jonathanm thank you very much for the clarification! That was exactly what I was needing to know.

 

Tom if you're watching, starting thinking of that next license level above pro. It's been a few years since I bought my license and would glad put some new license money next year for new high device limit for the array. I'm thinking of 72+ devices. Hot swap parity drive to go with it would be dope.

 

 

 

[trurl]

jonathanm thank you very much for the clarification! That was exactly what I was needing to know.

 

Tom if you're watching, starting thinking of that next license level above pro. It's been a few years since I bought my license and would glad put some new license money next year for new high device limit for the array. I'm thinking of 72+ devices. Hot swap parity drive to go with it would be dope.

With 8TB and larger drives available now, I can't see why anyone would put that many in a single system with only 2 parity drives.

[CyberSkulls]

jonathanm thank you very much for the clarification! That was exactly what I was needing to know.

 

Tom if you're watching, starting thinking of that next license level above pro. It's been a few years since I bought my license and would glad put some new license money next year for new high device limit for the array. I'm thinking of 72+ devices. Hot swap parity drive to go with it would be dope.

With 8TB and larger drives available now, I can't see why anyone would put that many in a single system with only 2 parity drives.

 

Because not everyone has 8TB drives or even wants 8TB drives. To put this into perspective to replace my current capacity into 8 TB drives would cost me $7,680 (WD Reds). A higher limit license would be pennies compared to the cost of Drive replacement but would allow me to cut down the physical number of head units (motherboard/proc/ram..) that I currently run for unRAID and allow me to fully utilize my JBOD chassis.

 

As to the parity drives. Not everyone uses parity drives either. I do on some of my systems and don't on others. From a drive replacement perspective, it's much faster for me to copy the missing files of a failed drive to a new drive over the network than it is to do a parity rebuild. Now that's not the only reason to use parity, I'm just giving you one example.

 

And to take it a step further I've commented on parity sets or multiple arrays in the past. So let's assume it was left the way it is with two parity drives which is fine by me. Allow multiple pro keys per install. So two keys would allow two arrays of 28 data + 2 parity. If we were allowed to run multiple license keys, I would most likely run three keys per install consisting of three arrays of 18 data + 2 parity for a total of 60 drives in my JBOD chassis.

 

I'm not using unRAID for the VM or Docker capability as I don't use either of those features. I run unRAID simply because it does what I could do in say Debian + Mergerfs but does it for me in a simple way as far as how it presents it to the end user and gives me a great GUI on top of that.

 

To say a feature or license like this has no merit (not that you said this) would be the same thing as if I said the VM and Docker function should be removed because I personally don't use them, therefore there is no use case for them. That would be very short sighted on my part knowing that everyone here uses unRAID for their own reasons. So I simply choose not to use some features that don't apply to me and use the features that I want/need.

 

 

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[Lev]

jonathanm thank you very much for the clarification! That was exactly what I was needing to know.

 

Tom if you're watching, starting thinking of that next license level above pro. It's been a few years since I bought my license and would glad put some new license money next year for new high device limit for the array. I'm thinking of 72+ devices. Hot swap parity drive to go with it would be dope.

With 8TB and larger drives available now, I can't see why anyone would put that many in a single system with only 2 parity drives.

 

Allow multiple pro keys per install. So two keys would allow two arrays of 28 data + 2 parity. If we were allowed to run multiple license keys, I would most likely run three keys per install consisting of three arrays of 18 data + 2 parity for a total of 60 drives in my JBOD chassis.

 

LOVE IT. Thank you for the reply! Genius. Tom do this and please take my money already.