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  1. There is just a plx chip on the nvme card to divide the lanes up, it's the reason that card is so expensive. Your machine would see the drives just like normal. I've got a asus x299 workstation board which has plx chips onboard to give more pcie slots, which is ironically why the bifurcation from the CPU doesn't work on that motherboard. So my nvme drives have to go through 2 plx chips (1 on the motherboard and 1 on the nvme card) before getting to the CPU, and they work just fine. There are some lower cost brands like Syba. SI-PEX40152 is a quad m.2 board.
  2. No bifurcation needed for this card. I've got the 4 nvme slot version and it works fine. Just pricey.... https://www.highpoint-tech.com/ssd/ssd7140a-overview
  3. Bigger UPS, as the battery ages it will lose capacity and you will have even less time. Maybe not enough to shutdown.
  4. I've been using a HDhomerun tuner for several years with no issues, works great. First with a HTPC running JRiver, now with Unraid and Emby docker. Emby handles all the live tv and recording. They are basically set and forget.
  5. That's pretty slick having the corsair PSU show usage. My EVGA has feature envy
  6. One thing to check is the width of your GPU with waterblock fitting In a 4U case. Most reference style boards will fit, but anything wider and the cover may not go on. Also I've had trouble with fluid evaporating through clear tubing. I started using black norprene a few years ago and have never had to top off a loop since. Watercooling FTW
  7. Using pfsense on a ZBOX CI521 and it handles a 650 mbps with hardly any cpu load. That model isn't made anymore, but zotac has a bunch of dual nic boxes.
  8. That's interesting. I got so tired of hearing the high pitch whine that I tossed a water block on it. I remember looking around forums for a way to slow it down, but never found anything. The P state looks like it changed. P0 is high performance, P8 would be some throttled down state.
  9. I tried this once. The only way it worked reliably for me was to passthrough the entire sata controller that the disc drive was plugged into.
  10. severalboxes

    Cheap UPS

    I've seen cheap UPS(s) kill power supplies and take motherboard and drives with them. So for me the cheapest one I would recommend is a cyberpower 850PFCLCD, the PFC models are so much kinder to the power supplies when they switch to battery backup.
  11. You can dump (or download) the vbios for the 1660ti and add it to the XML so unraid will pass off the primary GPU to the windows VM, however be prepared for some occasionally weirdness. I tried it for a while, but had issues with rebooting the VM, etc. It's best to find some way to rearranged your hardware (what I ended up doing).
  12. Hard to go wrong with the P2000. It makes short work of transcoding while only using about 20 watts.
  13. LG WH16NS60 with makemkv, supports 4k blurays with firmware update. Also a pioneer drive for standard blurays, can't remember the model. I've had others in the past, never had any trouble with any working with makemkv, so I'm not sure if there's a best. For direct play I've tried using a windows 10 VM with a passthrough blu-ray drive with anydvdhd, but it just wasn't reliable unless I passed through the entire sata controller the drive was on. Realistically I can rip a disc and have it playing in 30-40 minutes, so I just gave up on direct playing them.