1 hour ago, Squid said:

Not sure if I'm disappointed or not.  I had it in my head (based upon the avatar) that Tom wore Hawaiian shirts all the time.

I know I’m disappointed 

3 hours ago, Squid said:

Not sure if I'm disappointed or not.  I had it in my head (based upon the avatar) that Tom wore Hawaiian shirts all the time.

😂😂😂

Are there going to be added new features in the future Unraid versions?

 

@SpencerJ question:

Looking back from where Limetech began in 2005, what's been the most rewarding part of the journey over the years for Tom personally?

 

One of my biggest fears is my unRAID USB drive failing causing my entire system to go down. I'm wondering if there are any plans to allow for a secondary USB to be left in my unRAID machine and in the case of my boot drive failing, the secondary drive would become the primary with a notification in the gui of what happened.

There are many plugings made by the community covering basic options that should be available out of the box in Unraid. Have you consider integrate\absorb them in a future?

 

How do you plan to finance Unraid in the future? How is working so far with the lifetime licenses?

 

Can you give a tentative roadmap of the product? Or at least a few hints of what you are working on

Edited June 23, 20197 yr by L0rdRaiden

It's been almost 15 years since unraid came out. What has been the must surprising change to you in unraid? Where do you see unraid and storage technology in the next 5, 10, 15 years?

 

I also can't believe I've been using it since 2008!

Edited June 24, 20197 yr by CrashnBrn

Will an Arm version of unraid be released? With the increased power of the raspberry pi 4 this would be a perfect small fileserver with dockers

Do you believe future releases of KVM will drop support for older OSes like XP and Windows 7?

On 6/17/2019 at 9:49 PM, ItsMeMark said:

Can you promote SpaceInvaderOne? He's the only reason I use Unraid.

+1 There!! (PS you (we) can also promote SI1 by supporting his Patreon).   This has enabled me to go much further with UnRaid than I could otherwise go.   I do think that somehow integrating the resources available thru some of the more active Community Members more directly from the Limetech website (and perhaps a "New User" tab in the UnRaid GUI that points to these) would also help the popularity of UnRaid (Squid's App store and SpaceInvaderOne's videos being the most obvious of course).    

 

Perhaps then my question is to ask if you'd be willing to consider offering some resources in this direction for the new users?   Offloading the high contributor Community Members from the more basic of noob questions I'm sure would be welcome relief, & a Self Help reference can enhance the first impression for new users, and perhaps elevate the general content of the forums over time.  SI1 is gradually becoming your Wiki !

On 6/28/2019 at 1:28 AM, Ashe said:

Will an Arm version of unraid be released? With the increased power of the raspberry pi 4 this would be a perfect small fileserver with dockers

+1  - ARM based UnRaid (docker hypervisor and NAS features, sans VM's of course) would be grand!   Or a pre-curated set of features for an ARM version - NAS/Media center with some household PC backup features built in perhaps.  I can see people paying for a one click solution there !   Have a new RPi4 4GB in my hands - will be your first beta tester!

Edited June 30, 20197 yr by jsdoc

will you add wifi support at some point in the future, for them times where we cant run a Ethernet cable all the way from 1 room to another

Hey Tom,

 

I have more of a personal/career question to throw in. I have worked in IT my whole life and primarily fall into the technical support / system administrative category. I have limited Unix experience but I'm comfortable navigating my way around now and I have a high interest in hardware and storage at the firmware level.

 

What advice would you give to further my knowledge and experience in these areas and have you found there is much industry demand for these types of skills? Side question, you have an interesting background and I would love to one day shake the imposter syndrome, do you ever still feel this way? I mean, you've practically built an Operating System 🙂

 

Thanks,

 

B

On 6/19/2019 at 12:08 AM, SpencerJ said:

😂😂😂

Based on your response, either I'm correct, or you now have that image stuck in your head 😉 

Edited July 2, 20197 yr by Squid

On 6/19/2019 at 1:48 AM, Squid said:

Not sure if I'm disappointed or not.  I had it in my head (based upon the avatar) that Tom wore Hawaiian shirts all the time.

You're not the only one.....

 

I really do love the simplicity of Unraid for my home server uses.

 

My question and request is probably far from what has been posted here.

But i run an ESX Server in the Data Centre for my critical cloud apps.

I have been unsucessful trying to get Unraid working on ESX using a USB thumbdrive booting in an VM.

 

Are there any plans to release a cutdown Unraid Version for VM. I am happy to pay a license for it.

I simply want a stripped down version of Unraid for Docker and VM Management.

 

Every other Linux OS has a weird and frankly annoying way to manage Dockers, i really love Unraid's approach to this.

In my research of trying to get this working there was a fair amount of interest in a VM version of Unraid.

 

I would love to Beta test Unraid in a VM if you're ever looking for someone to do that.

On a casual note, do you have a favorite beer recipe, "Tom's Brew," or do you tend to experiment, change it up from batch to batch? 

Do you see drive capacity affecting unraid licensing model. 10+ TB drive I know I don't need more than a couple of those. 

 

Seems that there are a handful of beer/homebrewing enthusiasts in the mix (me included.) 

I'd opt for a community driven - open sourced 5 gallon recipe while we're at it.   🍺

 

 

Thank you to all who participated and asked Tom questions! The answers to many of these can now be found here.

 

Cheers