• Unraid is switching to annual subscription pricing, offering Starter, Unleashed, and Lifetime licenses with optional extension fees for updates.
  • Existing Basic, Plus, and Pro licenses can be upgraded to higher levels of perpetual licenses.
  • This change may increase revenue for Lime Technology but could also make other NAS providers more appealing to users.

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  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    183·
    9 months ago

    “Now announcing UnRAID 2, UnRAID original will no longer receive updates as we focus our resources on UnRAID 2.”

    And “UnRAID 2” will only have a subscription model, and people will the OG lifetime license won’t be grandfathered into the new license.

    Like Adobe and Photoshop.

    I’d say it’ll happen before 2030.

    But I may just be cynical at this point.

    • JC1@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      It might. I take the risk. At that point, storage cost will be lower, I’ll just buy a bunch of 20TB drives and build a truenas NAS. In the meantime, I’m satisfied with unraid as I don’t have to spend 2k+ to get 50TB of usable space.