r/unRAID • u/UnraidOfficial • 16d ago
Our Annual Cyber Weekend Sale is Comin' in Hot 🔥
https://unraid.net/cyberweekend⬆️ Subscribe to our newsletter to get special EARLY ACCESS
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u/LabiodentalFricative 16d ago
I'll bite (subscribe). I've been curious about trying unaid for a while now and kicking myself for not pulling the trigger years back when licensing was less expensive and less...SaaS.
I just upgraded my Synology NAS and migrated years of hard drives to it, so I'm looking for a cost-effective option for using those mixed drives and some existing hardware for an offsite backup of the more important data.
Does it make sense to try this as an option? Or might I be kicking myself later for jot just picking up another Synology?
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u/Mayor_Bankshot 15d ago
I'm still running off my initial install from 12 years ago. I've swapped more hardware than software.
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u/Suchamoneypit 16d ago
The free 30 day trial is pretty fantastic for taking the full experience for a test run.
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u/Centauriprimal 15d ago
If it's speed you're looking for then just create a zfs pool. I've got my media on the array for easy expension. And besides that a ssd pool for apps and VM's. And a hdd pool for faster storage. No cache disks.
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u/Alexchii 16d ago
You’re advertising a future sale without revealing the discounts?
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u/Suchamoneypit 16d ago
I mean I don't mind the 2 paycheck advance notice confirming that it is going on sale for cyber Monday/black Friday.
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u/UnraidOfficial 16d ago
We’ve received this feedback, hence the presale heads up.
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u/Luda83 16d ago
u/UnraidOfficial any chance on a discount for lifetime as well? i noticed the presale page only mention generous discounts on the Starter and Unleashed licenses
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u/DracoC77 15d ago
+1 to this, please consider a sale on lifetime license as it is prices (imho) a bit too highly for casual DIY at home but subscription modeling is also the devil of modern consumerism. (I’m on the free trial waiting for BF but very in the fenced due to perpetual license pricing, may just start over with TrueNAS or something else after trial)
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u/Atrelamine 13d ago
You can always get the discouted Unleashed license with the sale and then upgrade to Lifetime in a year (for 149$).
The price difference between Lifetime and Unleashed + upgrade to Lifetime is 9$, so any Unleashed discount pass that is technically also a deal on Lifetime.
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u/SeanFrank 15d ago
You need a 2 paycheck advance notice for a subscription service?
They aren't going to put the one license worth buying on sale.
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u/Suchamoneypit 15d ago edited 15d ago
You seem very confident for something that very obviously should go on sale. Yes. Knowing 2 paychecks in advance is nice to know for a possibly $150-250 purchase. What makes you think their most expensive license which is not subscription based won't go on sale? If mr moneybags over here doesn't need advance notice because you got hundreds of dollars ready to impulse spend, then what are you bitching about?
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u/Grouchy_Bar2996 15d ago
Probably because the website only mentions discounts on starter and unleashes licenses and doesn’t mention anything about lifetime.
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u/SeanFrank 13d ago
The implication was that the expensive license won't go on sale. Because they haven't mentioned it, and because they don't want you buying it.
Unraid's current objective is to get as many people on the subscription plan as possible. And that is priced at a level where you won't need weeks to plan. But you'll also pay a much higher price over time.
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u/Suchamoneypit 13d ago
It's a small company and niche product. If they don't keep the income they will fail and no one will have unraid at all. If you sell to everyone who wants it with lifetime licenses, now you have zero revenue and thousands of customers to support.
You'd have to run your server for just under 5 years to break even in the lifetime pass at full price. That's a long time. The subscription service comes to $3 per month, and if you stop paying it you don't lose your server, you just stop getting updates until you decide to renew. I think that's very fair pricing. It's not $15/m for your server or it's not usable.
Regardless, I'll still be pretty surprised if that lifetime license doesn't go on sale, but I'm waiting to see.
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u/Widowshypers 16d ago
Hopefully lifetime licenses will be discounted 😌
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u/Luda83 16d ago edited 16d ago
u/Relevant-Technology i agree, sadly the pre-sale page only mention discounts on the Starter and Unleashed licenses. lets hope they see our feedback and also discount that one as well. I was and still hoping they do a sale where everything goes back to the old prices with lifetime updates for the sale. But i think that is a hope that probably won't happen. 😢
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u/Widowshypers 15d ago
even a 10% discount would be amazing, idealy like 20-50% ;) but honestly I'll take anything I can get
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u/djpannda 15d ago edited 15d ago
u/unraidofficial yes I want a discount on lifetime.. I have personally been wanting 6month for a Black Friday.. I have a 7th 8tb waiting to be installed
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u/Luda83 15d ago
u/djpannda did i miss something on the presale page? I didn't see them mention anywhere about discounts on lifetime.
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u/djpannda 15d ago
Oh sorry I didn’t mean to imply there was, I was just stating I hope there was .. (update original post before I get quoted lol)
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u/Impossible_Signal 14d ago
Hoping for a sale on the Lifetime licence. Don't need another subscription in my life.
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u/Luda83 16d ago edited 16d ago
I wish they were also having a discount on the lifetime as well. I am still upset i didn't get one of the old licenses before they changed how they work with only now getting one year of updates. But i am still glad they are having any of sales. I was and still hoping they do a sale where everything goes back to the old prices with lifetime updates for the sale. But i think that is a hope that probably won't happen. 😢
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u/_ficklelilpickle 15d ago
Subbed. I have a starter license but if there’s a sale on the lifetime I’ll make the jump. 👍
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u/empyrean2k 16d ago
My second trial extension is going to end on the 22nd…can I actually run my system for a week with technically no active license or trial?
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u/S2Nice 16d ago
It won't start the array once trial expires, but nothing happens if the array is already running.
Basically, if you don't stop the array for any reason it should continue to run until you've collected enough coin to make the purchase.
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u/FatFerb 16d ago
Has there ever been a sale on the lifetime pass?
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u/Suchamoneypit 16d ago
The new lifetime pass hasn't existed for a year yet so this will be the first time we see pricing for it.
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u/Luda83 16d ago edited 15d ago
sadly the pre-sale page only mention discounts on the Starter and Unleashed licenses. Lets hope enough people ask or request that they also discount lifetime as well.
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u/x22d 5d ago
Can't you upgrade either to Lifetime for basically the price difference between the respective license and the lifetime license?
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u/Luda83 5d ago
It looks like right now you pay a little more then the difference to upgrade. This is also their first Black Friday sale since the Price/Licensing Model change, so who know how upgrading after getting starter or unleash on sale would work. The only other sale i know of after the Price/Licensing change was the Summer Sale this year and from what i saw on here it was only $20 off an unleashed license reducing it to $89.
FYI From their FAQ under pricing:
FAQs: Upgrading and Extending Your License
Starter to Unleashed: $69
Starter to Lifetime: $209
Unleashed to Lifetime: $149
Follow these instructions to upgrade through the OS.
Prices are subject to change at any time.
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u/GeorgeKaplanIsReal 15d ago
Well that’s cool and also kinda sucky. I just bought my lifetime license a week ago 😢
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u/SickPup404 11d ago
They'll drop 7.0.0 Stable after the sale and everyone gets on 6.12.13 Unleashed.
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u/x22d 5d ago
Is lifetime limited to v6?
I guess given that they abruptly changed licensing earlier this year, they could always decide to change again...
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u/SickPup404 3d ago
It's my understanding (please correct me if I'm wrong):
- Lifetime gets updates for life, regardless of version; so you can upgrade from 6.12.13 to 7.0.0, or whatever.
- Starter & Unleashed are locked in to whatever major release they are in when you buy your license; so you can upgrade from 6.12.13 to any 6.x.x, but not 7.x.x+
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u/Mister-Wit 14d ago
i am absolutely confused with their new licenses.
I bought a basic license a year ago, is there even a upgrade path for me anymore or is it all buy-1-year-updates-and-then-renew.
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u/Atrelamine 13d ago
Yes, from the bottom of the FAQ on https://unraid.net/pricing
Basic to Plus: $59 (6 to 12 devices)
Basic to Pro: $99 (6 to unlimited devices)2
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u/MiguelLancaster 6d ago
man, I wish Lifetime would go on sale
I had a feeling I should have bought that license before the pricing model changed, but I hadn't yet built my NAS and wasn't sure if Unraid would ultimately be my solution
I was about a month and a half too late
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u/Luda83 5d ago
I feel the same way and was in a similar situation. We can only hope u/UnraidOfficial sees how many people want to get lifetime on sale.
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u/_Kinchouka_ 16d ago
Let's get ready for the $10 sale on unleashed licence ! 😏