Upcoming Changes to Unraid OS Pricing
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  • keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Good to see existing licenses will be grandfathered in, would be lots of uproar if that wasn’t the case.

    Also not surprising with how they have been growing and performing, just means probably won’t be my default rec when asked how to make a NAS/server

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Yeah, but I’ve been promised that so many times before it’s just empty words to me now.

      In fact just this week IFTTT “forgot” I was grandfathered into my “pay what you want” plan and “upgraded” me to their more expensive plan. Never trust grandfathered plans.

    • dukatos@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 months ago

      “The existing licenses will be active as long as current USB drive lives”

      • keyez@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Not sure where you’re getting that or if it was in jest. Blog mentions nothing in relation to that and their docs are still up about migrating a license to a new flash drive.

  • Nogami@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    I’m totally OK with this, but having 2 pro licenses I may be biased.

    It’s no different from other vendors that offer a year of upgrades with a license and you need to pay afterwards.

    As long as it never moves to a “pay periodically or your entire license becomes inactive” (like Adobe), I have no issue with it.

    They need to have a gentle way to handle upgrades after the included “timeframe” that also isn’t just “buy a new license if you decide to skip updating for a period of time” for whatever reason. If you stop updating for hardware or personal reasons for a few years, getting back up to date should still be competitive vs buying a new license.

    UnRAID is absolutely worth it. Definitely the best computing investment I’ve made in the last 2 decades.

    • Red@reddthat.comEnglish
      01·
      6 months ago

      I never understood why people use unraid, mostly because I never understood the “parity” features, or honestly between you and me the lack of proper parity. But I have a Synology, so I can’t talk (price wise) and I have raid 5 everywhere so parity is a joke here too :p

    • ratman150@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      6 months ago

      I’m not so sure that’s what this is…at least at this time. The lower tiers according to the article are still a perpetual license but the support/updates will be an optional extra after 1 year. Current customers won’t be effected and they have a tier that completely avoids this.

      I’m not thrilled by it, but in comparison Fusion360 went from 70 a month to 85 a month without any real reason and this doesn’t seem like the same can of bullshit.