Please don't take my comments as a negative. Is there already something out there similar to unRAID? This technology just seems so straight-forward and fit for most home use that I really forsee it becoming more popular. Thus, my original question for this thread. I've already seen companies with short-term visions go under in this scenario: get in, make quick money and get out. If the latter happens, it would mean zero support for me if I have their product. Once unRAID go up against these less expensive/free alternatives, Lime-tech would have to lower the price, sell more value-adds or shutdown. Infrant already has X-RAID that is similar. If this raid technology becomes popular, variations of the same technology may be adopted in other nas solutions such as freenas, naslite, openfiler just to name a few. Something else I'm pondering.unRAID technology seems to be the main selling point for Lime-Tech. I wonder if Tom would benchmark unRAID against other NAS?
#Limetech unraid pro pro#
Also, if only data drives count towards the license, does that mean I can have 12 data drives plus 1 parity drive under the Pro license? Thanks for the info, especially the bit about upgrading from 2.4 soon. That one is supposed to be 6 disk, but it shows I can use 7 (1 parity and 6 data drives). He has a free version for use with 3 drives (1 partity, 2 data drives). I have been quite happy with it, and if you have the parts laying around, give it a try. I know he plans on putting the newer kernel in it soon, which will give my AMD unRaid box Cool 'n Quiet. Yes, they are on 2.4, but since this will be a dedicated box, the version is not that big of a deal.
#Limetech unraid pro movie#
With a 12 drive unRaid array, if you are streaming a movie from it, only one drive is spinning and the rest are not, greatly lowering the heat and energy usage. This makes adding drives really easy as you can get the cheap ones that are on sale and don't have to worry so much about the size or mfr.ģ. As long as the Parity drive is the largest drive, any other disk can be used fully. If it was striped, you would lose it all.Ģ.
If you do lose more than one drive, you can still recover the data on the disks that did not go bad. Here are the benefits to unRaid versus other raid solutions I looked into:ġ.