Licensing

[tomahawkeer]

Hello guys, my first post here, so please don't hate me too much for this question.

 

I am about to buy a license, probably the Tier 1 or Tier 2, and I just wanted to verify that a parity drive DOES use one of those attached storage devices, AND that the CACHE drive does NOT. Is this correct?

 

Thank you in advance!

[SpencerJ]

10 minutes ago, tomahawkeer said:

Hello guys, my first post here, so please don't hate me too much for this question.

 

I am about to buy a license, probably the Tier 1 or Tier 2, and I just wanted to verify that a parity drive DOES use one of those attached storage devices, AND that the CACHE drive does NOT. Is this correct?

 

Thank you in advance!

Hello and welcome! Thanks for checking us out. Both parity and cache drive count towards the attached storage devices limit. 

 

Cheers,

 

Spencer

[itimpi]

No.    All attached storage devices (except the flash drive used for booting Unraid) count (even if not being used by Unraid).

[tomahawkeer]

Ok wow, I need to read more of the documentation. Don't know why I didn't think the cache wasn't counted. 

 

I have been messing around with freenas for a couple of months, and its a great project and all, but for my needs, I think unraid probably works better. I just need some simple NAS storage and the ability to run plex and possibly a few other things via the NAS.  Ill download the trial, and give it a whirl once I move my hardware to my new case. Regardless, thanks for the answer!

[SpencerJ]

Great- thanks for trying us out. Feel free to check back in with any Q's.