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As a former unraid user and a certified unraid hater—Finally a problem solved by computers since their inception has been solved by unraid… cannot imagine why one uses unraid outside of having a mixed set of drives and only one device.
I mean, it's all personal preference in this community. Other than this flash drive issue, Unraid has been rock solid for me.
I originally started using it more than a decade ago to be able to mix drives.
I also do have multiple Unraid servers as well.
Why would you pay for something, now annually, that is essentially a bad Linux webgui , which can be easily achieved for free with any Linux distro? Outside of mixed drives…
I don't pay annually. I'm locked in with permanent licensing because I've used it for over a decade (see: legacy licensing). Unless that changes, and something else can do the mixed drives as well as Unraid, I don't see that changing for me any time soon.
For my servers that aren't mixed JBOD, I use Fedora/CoreOS with Quadlets, so believe me when I say that I know that outside of that specific use case, there are better options.
But I use Unraid specifically for the ability to mix drive sizes and easily emulate and rebuild failed disks. That's it. That's the whole reasoning as to why I still use it.
Oh, also, while yes, it did become a subscription (which does not apply to me anyway), it's not necessarily a standard annual subscription, it's a one time purchase and then you can choose to stop paying until you want to update again. The subsequent payments are less than the first purchase of the license and do last for a year. You still own your license when you stop paying, you just stop getting updates until you pay that lesser amount again. While similar (and I personally wouldn't buy a license today), it isn't what an annual subscription normally implies.
I think we have different definitions of "easily".
Run fedora server, download docker, download Portainer, run images same as unraid, profit.