Thanks for your honest opinion. I would like to point out that our professional version of DSS 4TB, 8TB and 16TB you do not have this issue of activation and hardware interchanging. Additionally if you have an issue with your hardware we are willing to allow the re-activation. It is best to be informative of the conditions of DSS LITE and that DSS LITE is only available until January 31st, after that this will not be available for download as stated on the website. We could go into how others do not provide this opportunity (and others do with limitations - let's not mention names please!) and we may decide later to extend this but nothing will be decided until after the 31st (this was one of the fist post on the forum).

Open-E wanted to offer something back to the community for free, in hopes that you will find something useful from DSS LITE.

Again the DSS professional versions do not have these limitations.

Thanks again for your opinion, even though you have had a negative experience.

License key is related to the hardware list, this can be accessed in the Console tools in "Hardware info" (ALT+CTRL+H), only exception is recreation of the Units, Soft Raids and Tape devices.