July 22, 201015 yr I have no complaints about unRAID. I'm happy with the product. I tell people at work abut it. I tell my friends about it. I feel safe with unRAID. Complaint: whu is the free version 3 disks, Plus 6 disks, and Pro 20+? I feel that the gap between Plus and Pro is too large. I would never want 20+... but I might want 8 or 10. I feel Plus should be averaged out between the versions. Just a thought. Give me 2 more disks in Plus. I see 2 nice drives eying me right now ;-)
July 22, 201015 yr I wish Plus was 8 drives. I fully understand why more than that is Pro. If I were Tom I'd set Plus at 6 also because more sales of Pro licenses that way. And really if someone has more than 6 drives raided together it does seem to be at the Pro level. He just makes it easy so it doesn't seem like you have to be a Pro to do it. It seems like more than 16 drives should be an additional tier priced higher. 3 drives is the smallest that the free (basic) could be and get any attention. 2 drive basic would be humorous.
July 22, 201015 yr While we are talking about the number of drives etc. Does anyone know if there are any future plans to expand the limit beyond 20? I am a long way off that yet, but I am currently building my unRAID system with a Norco 4020 which will take 20 drives, so one day I may very well get to that number. But I would like to install the parity and cache drives above the removable bays which would take me up to 20 data drives, 1 cache drive and 1 parity drive which is obviously above the 20 drive limit.
July 22, 201015 yr While we are talking about the number of drives etc. Does anyone know if there are any future plans to expand the limit beyond 20? I am a long way off that yet, but I am currently building my unRAID system with a Norco 4020 which will take 20 drives, so one day I may very well get to that number. But I would like to install the parity and cache drives above the removable bays which would take me up to 20 data drives, 1 cache drive and 1 parity drive which is obviously above the 20 drive limit. That is exactly the configuration supported in the 5.0 series of unRAID, just now being release in its first beta version. (not yet suggested for a production server) Its release notes state: Basic - support 3 array drives, no cache, no Active Directory support Plus - support 6 array drives plus cache drive, no Active Directory support Pro - support 21 array drives plus cache drive, Active Directory support Pro will therefore support: 20 data drives, 1 parity drive, 1 cache drive. By the time you set to that size array, 5.0 should be out of the beta mode. Joe L.
July 22, 201015 yr While we are talking about the number of drives etc. Does anyone know if there are any future plans to expand the limit beyond 20? I am a long way off that yet, but I am currently building my unRAID system with a Norco 4020 which will take 20 drives, so one day I may very well get to that number. But I would like to install the parity and cache drives above the removable bays which would take me up to 20 data drives, 1 cache drive and 1 parity drive which is obviously above the 20 drive limit. That is exactly the configuration supported in the 5.0 series of unRAID, just now being release in its first beta version. (not yet suggested for a production server) Its release notes state: Basic - support 3 array drives, no cache, no Active Directory support Plus - support 6 array drives plus cache drive, no Active Directory support Pro - support 21 array drives plus cache drive, Active Directory support Pro will therefore support: 20 data drives, 1 parity drive, 1 cache drive. By the time you set to that size array, 5.0 should be out of the beta mode. Joe L. Oooh, that's good news. Any idea of a release date for 5.0 (Non beta release?)
July 22, 201015 yr While we are talking about the number of drives etc. Does anyone know if there are any future plans to expand the limit beyond 20? I am a long way off that yet, but I am currently building my unRAID system with a Norco 4020 which will take 20 drives, so one day I may very well get to that number. But I would like to install the parity and cache drives above the removable bays which would take me up to 20 data drives, 1 cache drive and 1 parity drive which is obviously above the 20 drive limit. That is exactly the configuration supported in the 5.0 series of unRAID, just now being release in its first beta version. (not yet suggested for a production server) Its release notes state: Basic - support 3 array drives, no cache, no Active Directory support Plus - support 6 array drives plus cache drive, no Active Directory support Pro - support 21 array drives plus cache drive, Active Directory support Pro will therefore support: 20 data drives, 1 parity drive, 1 cache drive. By the time you set to that size array, 5.0 should be out of the beta mode. Joe L. Oooh, that's good news. Any idea of a release date for 5.0 (Non beta release?) I'll guess about 6 months before it is non-beta. The first beta was expected to be available in late Dec 2009, it was just released on July 19th, 2010. I expect a series of beta releases before it is ready for use in a production server as it is a full re-write of the user-interface and a full re-write of the underlying security model. The first beta currently only has support for SAMBA CIFS network shares. NFS and others will eventually follow. Joe L.
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