Rhodius

Hi, I've just build an Unraid server using Ryzen 3700X and X570 motherboard. I'm getting really slow transfer speed over gigabit network and no cache. If I use Windows 10 laptop to copy from my QNAP NAS, I'm getting an average of 30-40MB/s. If I use rsync, this starts at 50-65MB/s and eventually slow down to 1-3 MB/s. If I use MC, it slows down to under 10MB/s. QNAP is showing CPU and RAM utilization of less than 10%. Unraid CPU (Ryzen 3700X) is showing one of the core hitting 100%. Its a random core but always hitting 100%. Additional info: Parity is on, using Unraid version 6.8.0-RC5. Anybody else having the same issue?

Hi, I'm new to Unraid and just finished setting up my VM to boot from the same Windows install as baremetal NVME Windows, I posted the guide/walkthrough/struggles in the VM section. However throughout the setup I kept thinking if is there a way to use the same NVME as cache and VM and how? If not do I need a separate NVME/SSD? My intention is to use Unraid as data storage, so this will have to run as NAS 24/7, I'd like to run Plex as well. I understand I want Plex to be on something fast, I assume it's not gonna like sharing with VM where the VM take full ownership of the drive. However on the occasion I need to activate the VM for gaming, does that mean for Unraid cache and Plex cache, I need a separate SSD and kept the one NVME I have for the purpose of VM? I have a 500Gb NVME that I partitioned to a bootable Windows install using only 76Gb, leaving about 400Gb available that I was gonna use as Unraid cache partition if this setup is possible. Can someone show me a guide or tell me this is not possible and to get another SSD/NVME? Can I passthrough only certain partition for VM purpose and use the other partition of the same NVME as Unraid cache? Thanks.

Hi all, I found Unraid last year and this past April set about to build my first PC/server for the purpose of data storage, Plex and VMs. I had a QNAP NAS that I’ll sync with the Unraid and when done probably use as a backup, Unraid being the main server. I bought the following hardware in the beginning of June after waiting for a while on a particular motherboard and finally finished putting it together 2 weeks ago. I had spent on and off almost 1-2 weeks figuring out the VM part. Even though the main purpose was for data storage and Plex, I figured I don’t want issue down the road if I’m using it for VM that I couldn’t get to work in the beginning. As that may involve tearing apart and putting together new hardware, why spent all that time if the HW will be replaced anyway? So the main purpose of this post is to save others from having to spend as much time as I did, hopefully this helps. CPU: AMD Ryzen 3700X RAM: Corsair LPX 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz C16 DDR4 DRAM Mobo: ASRock X570M Pro4 GPU: NVIDIA Quadro P2200 Storage: Used/transplanted Toshiba NVME 512Gb from laptop, 2x 12TB Element PSU: Corsair RM750x Goal: Bare metal NVME Win 10 should be bootable and used as VM in the Unraid The thinking is I only want to maintain one Windows system, I can use for benchmarking and other Windows related purpose such as gaming and others. Achieving that goal is how I spent on and off at least one week figuring out how to get it to work. After watching countless hours of SpaceInvaderOne and reading postings on the forum and countless hours of trying out and testing, I managed to achieve this goal. For VM, the following BIOS settings must be done for ASRock X570M PRO4, BIOS is updated to 2.30 for AGESA compatibility: Advanced -> CPU Configuration -> SVM Mode -> Enable Advanced -> AMD CBS -> NBIO Common Options -> IOMMU -> Enable Advanced -> AMD CBS -> NBIO Common Options -> ACS Enable -> Enable Advanced -> AMD CBS -> NBIO Common Options -> Enable AER Cap -> Enable Almost all X570 has similar backplane: I installed Windows 10 on the NVME, update all drivers, NVIDIA, Intel networking, AMD chipset. Then I took a copy of it using Reflect, this proves to be a wise move since the failed VM booting caused issues to the baremetal Windows installation. This step saves me countless hours since restoring my Windows take only 10 minutes. I have a copy of Win 10 complete with all bench-marking tools and device drivers before I took a snapshot. I used Unraid 6.8.0-RC5 with X570 audio fix and didn’t add anything to Syslinux settings. This Unraid with audio fix released by Skittals is important to being able to have audio in the VM for gaming purpose. I put Unraid where no. 3 is and my USB keyboard and mouse on no. 2. Originally I put Unraid on no.1 and USB can’t be passed onto VM without issue, I suspect no. 1 and 2 share the same USB bus. NVME is unassigned device and together with no. 2 are what I passed onto the VM. VM ACS setting is set to disabled and the following is my VFIO-PCI config settings (thanks Skittal). I had struggled to get the VM to boot to bare metal Windows installed on NVME, I tried re-installing Windows trying to get a legacy boot instead of UEFI thinking that was an issue, I even ordered a Samsung EVO 860 thinking it was the vendor ID issue etc. The issue turned out to be that I can’t use i440, I can only use Q35. The following is the VM setup, I copied the UUID from the baremetal and inserted it here. Compare to other examples I’ve followed, the biggest impact setting for my setup is Q35 below. For this next page the biggest issue is passing the USB, once I figured out which USB outlet works with what, then I read Skittal’s posting on his X570, that helps in finalizing the VFIO-PCI config which leads to the setting here. I dumped my own VBIOS using GPU-Z following SpaceInvaderOne’s instruction to remove the header from the VBIOS. Now I can use my VM the way I intended to use it for while booting from the same instance bare metal.