hi all, i have a question hopefully you can answer.

 

i am currently migrating all my data offsite and therefore will be retiring my server, however when i come to sell this i understand the licence for unraid pro is not transferrable, so i am looking to utilise this in a little NUC i am going to use for sonarr, nzb stuff and a couple of VMs, i aim to use an MSI cubi which has space for both an mSATA and normal SATA drive, so i was going to put 2 x 512 ssds in the box. however i am not really bothered about backup or parity so just want a single drive for storage (which would be temp until it gets moved off the box) and another disk as a cache drive to store vms and docker.

 

i know i could do this with a normal linux distro but i like the simplicity of unraid and using web console for configuration etc but appreciate im not going to be using it for its primary intended purpose, plus its a waste of over £100 for software i wont use anymore

 

so do i need a parity drive if i dont care about whats on my single storage drive.

would i be better just using slot 1 and slot 2 of the array for the disks (any advantage to using the cache drive) i dont use mover and at the moment i dont use cache for anything apart from storing vms and docker as its an ssd over spinny drives in my array

 

 

No, you don't need a parity disk.

 

In your situation with 2xSSD I would probably go for two data disks and no cache.

hi thanks for the reply thats great thank you

 

I know that the license is tied to a specific USB device, but I would have thought it WAS transferable as long as the purchaser is given the USB device that goes with the license although I guess I could be wrong about that.  However it used to be legitimate to buy a license pack (when LimeTech provided such packs) and split the pack between users.

I know that the license is tied to a specific USB device, but I would have thought it WAS transferable as long as the purchaser is given the USB device that goes with the license although I guess I could be wrong about that.  However it used to be legitimate to buy a license pack (when LimeTech provided such packs) and split the pack between users.

http://lime-technology.com/policies/#nokeytransfers