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15% off Unraid Basic Licence US$50.15 (A$74.64) and All Licence Upgrades @ Unraid

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15% off Unraid Basic Licence US$50.15 (A$74.64) and All Licence Upgrades @ Unraid
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jtlaus on 12/07/2023 - 15:52 unraid.net (316 clicks)
SUMMER23

My Unraid trial is about to expire and I think it will be too tricky to change OS/Filesystem now. Unraid has suited my needs well so far, so I was checking prices and noticed there is a sale. Not as good as prior 20% off sales though.

🔒 Unraid Basic License: NOW: $50.15 USD WAS $59
🚀 Upgrade Options with 15% Off:
1️⃣ Basic to Plus License: NOW: $33.15 USD
2️⃣ Plus to Pro License: NOW: $41.65 USD
3️⃣ Basic to Pro License: NOW: $67.15 USD

I believe you'd be able to buy the basic license and then buy the upgrade for a slightly cheaper than RRP price, for example US$50.15 + US$33.15 for Plus License rather than US$89

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  • askbargain on 12/07/2023 - 16:03

    Did you start with ZFS?

    • jtlaus on 12/07/2023 - 16:21

      I started with xfs due to following setup tutorials that pre-dated zfs Unraid tutorials.

  • The Fixer on 12/07/2023 - 16:05
    +1

    An awesome piece of software. Not as easy to setup as a Synology or QNAP NAS, but once it is, it is much more powerful than the aforementioned off the self systems (especially for streaming 4k/8k for Plex/jellyfin/embey, game servers, etc) , and i would argue just as cost effective in the long run, as you can upgrade bits of hardware as needed.

  • Ostrich on 12/07/2023 - 16:05
    +1

    Unraid is awesome, been using for a very long time and have on two of my home servers

  • timolol on 12/07/2023 - 16:07
    +2

    Highly recommend an open source (free) alternative - TrueNAS SCALE

  • pbxjnr on 12/07/2023 - 16:37
    +1

    Big fan of Unraid here for the pure fact you can mix and match drive sizes and add new drives to the pool very easily

  • Leho on 12/07/2023 - 17:43
    +3

    Debian + docker is the dream setup if you have Linux experience

  • jong on 12/07/2023 - 18:01
    +3

    For those who don't know, this is an operating system that turns an ordinary PC into Network Attached Storage - a place where you can put all your files (movies, MP3s, whatever), and get to them from any other device on your network.

    It also lets you have one or two parity drives - like RAID - that let you reconstruct your data if one of your drives fails. If you have four data drives and one parity drive, and one of your data drives fails, you can replace the failed drive and use the parity drive to put all of your data back.

    The unique bit about UnRAID, though, is that the drives can be any size, and you can add to them without having to wipe the whole array and start again. Normal RAID requires all drives to be the same size, and if you want to add a drive to your parity-protected array, you need to take all the data off it and rebuild the array. In my case my UnRAID array started with a couple of 8- and 10- TB drives, and then when SSDs started to get cheap I went around replacing my family member's laptop drives with SSDs…. and stuck all those 500GB HHDs in the array, because why not? If it spins, it UnRAIDs.

    After that, it's got a bunch of other easy-to-use functionality. It's got Wireguard built in if you want to VPN home, it's got an easy-to-use app store for installing software in Docker containers like Plex or Pi Hole or Unify Controller or any number of Steam game servers, there's a whole Virtual Machine side of things that I've never played with if you want to run Windows or Ubuntu or whatever on it….

    I've been using it for about three and a half years, and am very happy with it; I've got friends who have been using it for 12. My only advice is to buy the larger licence while it's on sale, as its more likely (IMHO) that you'll add more drives to your set up than not add any.

    • hen dawg on 12/07/2023 - 20:21
      +1

      Great explanation! Cheers.
      Love the idea of mix and match drives. Not an option with my QNAP.
      Guess you need to consider power consumption of PC vs NAS? That said, I wouldn't need mine on 24/7 and assume they this boots up faster than a NAS? (Mine takes ages to be operational)

      • jong on 12/07/2023 - 20:45
        +1

        You do have to consider power consumption - mine's using 106 watts at the moment, doing nothing and with all drives spun down - but for a lot of people the advantages outweigh that cost. Things like having the extra CPU power to run other apps, being able to recycle an old motherboard/case into a new NAS, the extra PCIE/SATA ports and RAM slots you get with a PC motherboard.

        That said, I think if someone made a NAS style motherboard with a low power Intel chip available to the public, a lot of people would be interested.

        As for boot speed, I believe it boots pretty quickly - the OS itself is very small - but I can't answer for sure as I have a couple of SAS HBA cards in mine and they take a while to self-test before allowing the OS to boot. If it helps, the entire OS on mine is only a gigabyte or so.

        • hen dawg on 12/07/2023 - 20:58
          +1

          Thanks, that sure ups the running costs to over $200 a year but I do see the benefits of it

  • tonyamazing on 12/07/2023 - 18:12
    +1

    Fantastic. I just changed from openmediavault and am impressed so far.

  • Bruceflix on 12/07/2023 - 18:27
    +2

    I used freenas for years but came over to unraid about 5 years ago and am happy with it. Don't get me wrong, freenas was great, literally the most stable OS i have ever used. But unraid is the complete package. The community is awesome, the software is great. It caters to both the noob and the nerd in how simple or complex you want it to be. Worth the price at full price.

  • Grange Hermit on 12/07/2023 - 19:17

    Am interested in this for comparison against my current HP N54L server, with Win 11 Pro (yes, I know not a NAS OS!), Drivepool, and Snapraid. From a brief read of the FAQ etc, seems I'd have to basically start again from scratch, backing up, then wiping disks, then installing Unraid to replace Win 11 Pro. There's a lot of ínertia' '/ learning curve for me to overcome to go down this route?

    Thoughts welcomed from more techy people than me - TIA.

    • stevem42 on 12/07/2023 - 20:47
      +1

      I have an N54L and highly recommend unraid for it!

      I have 4 data drives mostly 3TB, one 2TB
      3TB Parity Drive, and a 250GB SSD as the cache drive.
      Unraid itself runs on a USB.

      You can "hack" it to get those extra two drives, which live up the top in addition to the swappable drive bays. Easy info online.

      I also came from Windows and DrivePool and it's no comparison, this is a much much better user experience. (Actually doing this helped me move from Windows to Linux for my home PC) I did start over so I'm not sure the actual process to convert unfortunately, I did it many years ago, but can say 100% it's worth it.

      Lots of videos and info online for unraid, Reddit sub (I assume that's still operating 🤔).

      I have Emby, Sabnzbd, Sonarr etc etc in Docker containers, and it streams to Kodi on a few TVs.

      Also streams well through OpenVPN (set up on my router) if I need a file or happen to want to watch something on the road.

      Can also set up users in Unraid and selectively give people access to "shares" if that's of any use to you.

      Only other thing I'll say is the parity drive needs to be equal to or greater than your largest data drive so keep that in mind before setting it up or buying drives.

      I'm not sure the N54 would handle several larger drives so I'll keep this setup till it breaks and build a dedicated Unraid server next time.

      • Grange Hermit on 12/07/2023 - 20:55

        Steve,

        Many thanks your fulsome reply, appreciated.

        Down the rabbit hole I go, researching more on Unraid!

  • SickDmith on 12/07/2023 - 22:11

    Is this license per device?

    Also
    Does it make sense to use it on a system without multiple drives?
    Or Debian + Docker will be more appropriate in this case?

  • kid-vhee on 13/07/2023 - 14:19

    Not a heavy user, but have had the license for 2 years. Great for basic plex sever, and using raddr/sonarr etc to catalogue and manage files.

    I've also use mine for game servers.

    So far, yet to see hardware that isn't supported, bought cheapie opteron cpu and mb to run mine.

    Plenty of dockers to be run. Can support stable diffusion and AI if you're interested.

    • SickDmith on 11/08/2023 - 21:18

      Can you run multiple instances with a single license?

      • kid-vhee on 21/08/2023 - 11:59

        Dont think so. A license is allocated/installed against a USB GUID - which is registered on Unraid servers. Pretty sure can only have one machine activated at a time. Unless a machines is running offline, might be able to have multiple instances - but kinda defeats the purpose.

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