Upgraded both of my systems, no issues at all.

https://unraid.net/blog/unraid-7-beta

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/release-notes/7.0.0/#storage

Tried it after unRAID. Hated it. Erased it.

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.

It is infact Graphics Interchange format. Not Jirafics Interchange format.

I know the creator pronounces it Jif, but there are lots of people in the world who pronounce things wrong.

I offer up “niche”. It’s actually not nitch no matter how many people say it like that.

Lookit all the nerds I triggered. Popcorn time!

It’s not really a big deal for me, updating and rebooting takes all of 4 min on my server, so prefer to update and ensure issues are mitigated.

If you’re running something earlier than 6.12.5 and using ZFS, there is a potential for data loss due to a bug that can occur on any ZFS filesystem (not just within unRAID). Patching to at least 6.12.5 mitigates that bug and 6.12.6 solves it, so delaying a couple of weeks could put data at risk. Not advised.

Looks like this is an important one for ZFS users as it mitigates an (uncommon) ZFS bug causing data corruption that impacts all ZFS platforms, not just unRAID.

Sounds like a hardware problem. If you’re going with motherboard SATA connectors, don’t.

Look into a professional SAS adapter and use that instead. You’ll be super happy you did. Very cheap on eBay.

It’s also being made into a news item now instead of just a sale between nations. They’re definitely using this as a non subtle warning to China.

Yup and make sure you keep a backup on a separate machine. I used to just keep flash backups on the array with the rest of my stuff. You can still get to it without unraid mounting the main file system but it’s another level of annoyance you don’t need when your system is down.

I don’t really mind the system contacting unraid mothership. It’s a way to prevent pirates and sneaky types from ruining it for all of us paying users. Maybe when they stop doing that, license management gets easier.

Since some easily ruffled $0.50 mod erased my post let me explain. Anytime someone does something China doesn’t like they immediately cry racism about it.

It’s all bullshit and we all know it.

It’s long past time for the world to stop putting up with China’s crap and let them know they’ll be entirely cut off from the world if they can’t learn to play nice.

Oh look, I’m being brigaded by downvote bots, it’s just so pathetic.

It’s nice that it’s out in the open now. Let’s China know it’s place and that everyone is tired of their shit.

Fortunately that sort of rebuild is entirely non-exciting. Just put new drive in and start the rebuild and ignore it. Fortunately only needed to do a couple of times. Never any drama or data loss.

You shouldn’t be getting a disabled drive unless there’s some sort of hardware issue, or the drive is starting to fail. Double check cabling to ensure connections are solid. Check drive smart attributes and maybe run a manual long smart check.

May have been people with very esoteric setups. Easy enough to test, nothing is going to break. Just back up usb key before upgrading. If it doesn’t work you just restore the backup, no need for panic.

FWIW both of my 6.12 systems upgraded flawlessly. I run a handful of common dockers on my main system and very few on my backup machine.

I’m toying with upgrading mine to the latest release remotely. I’m on the other side of the world away from my servers right now but not a significant risk imho. Supermicro IPMI makes it pretty risk free.

I’ll wear a kilt in a heartbeat!

Look up Japanese Kintsubi - Repairing with gold.

It’s never going to be the same as before it was chipped, so accept that and make it better by making the damage part of the story beautifully.

Another easy update on both of my servers. Worked fine.

I think all of the Toto washlets do?

My experience dealing with healthcare, ambulances and hospitals in Canada.

No matter how you get to the hospital, ambulance, driving yourself, taking a cab, etc. When you get there, a triage attendant will check your condition for severity. If you have something that can kill you quickly (abnormal heart rate, extreme high or low blood pressure, signs of a stroke, difficulty breathing), uncontrollable bleeding, some sort of penetrating injury (shot, stabbed, impaled, etc) they’ll bring you in immediately.

If it’s something not as critical (broken appendage, bleeding which can be controlled by pressure, etc., unspecified pain), you’re going to wait until anyone in the first category has been taken care of first.

Count your blessings if you have to wait, it means whatever you have is not that bad. May be in a lot of pain and otherwise suck, but it’s probably not life threatening.

When I went to a hospital with a heart arrhythmia, they didn’t break stride as they brought me in and hooked me up to many machines to monitor everything. That’s an “oh, crap!” moment. I’d much rather be told I had to wait for a bit, means it’s not too bad, and I can keep occupied as long as my phone battery holds-out.

At least in Canada, it will be cheap, if not totally free. Had heart surgery that would’ve cost $80,000k in the US. In Canada? I complained about paying for parking for the day.