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Thanks for the info. Yes they are in 2 separate iommu groups. I haven't tried passing just a pair of them through. I'm not sure how to do just a pair since they all have the same device id.

I have a dell r810 with a built in 4 port nic and no other nic ports available. I wan't to setup a pfsense firewall VM which will require nic passthrough. My concern is that to my understanding that would make the whole card unusable to unraid. Does that mean that if I pass it through and use it on the vm that I won't be able to access the unraid web gui unless I have another nic card. Or will it work like normal and then I can still use the other 3 ports for pfsense? Edit: I guess what I'm asking is there a way to pass through only 2 ports of my 4port nic leaving 2 available to unraid and 2 available to my pfsense vm? They show up as 2 different iommu groups with all four ports having the same device ID.

Great insight! Thanks, I hadn't really thought of it like that. I was mainly just curious if there was some sort of performance benefit or if people just liked storing random stuff on random drives...still doesn't make sense for the ones that have like 6 drives and 10% of each is full.

Isn't that what the folders created by the shares are for? To organize stuff? lol

I have seen a lot of people on here that have 4 or 5 storage devices and one cache drive but not nearly enough data to fill them and the data is spread out between all of them....Is there a reason why you would go with multiple storage drives (with the exception of parity) as opposed to just one really large hard drive and one large cache drive (since it is much faster than storage). Is it a performance thing to spread them out across multiple drives in the array? I have about 4tb of data and have a few random 1tb drives that house the data. Is there any reason why I shouldn't just go buy like 2 10tb drives (for parity reasons) and have like 1 large cache drive and that's it to run things off of?

I have a couple VM's running in unraid on my dell r810 server that really don't have the performance I would like or should have. I am thinking that most of this is due to the fact that drive r/w speed outside of a cache drive is slowed considerably in unraid. So what I am wondering is if I can setup my V/M's on a separate ssd outside of the raid (yes I know it isn't a "raid" in unraid but that is the best way to describe what I'm saying) to get better read/write speed. Preferably I would like to get r/w speeds the same or close to if I had windows installed natively. Is my best option to allow the vm to write to the cache drive? Or to set the drive up as an unassigned device and use a plugin to backup the vm? If it is better to use the cache drive would I move the entire vdisk to the cache drive?

This folder ended up being 317mb and it is still only 54% done being deleted.

I am trying to delete some file from one of my drives. The folder itself is about 300mb and it is taking forever. It has been stuck on the discovering window for at least 5 mins now and has only discovered 31mb of files. What could be wrong?

I am looking for the best way to setup a cloud service that will allow me to setup external links for people to download and upload files to my server. Is nextcloud best for this or is there a better one?

Thanks! I don't mind passing through the whole pair....I'm using one of my vm's as a vps for forex trading, which requires good ping times for placing trades etc. I was assuming that the hardware nic would be better than the virtio one in that case. Would it make any difference in my case as to which one I use?

Hello, I am wondering if I can pass through a single port of my 4 port nic card on my poweredge r810 server to a windows vm? I watched spaceinvaders tutorial but it is confusing me because 2 ports are in 1 iommu group and 2 ports in another iommu group and they all have the same id. Here is a copy pasta from my device file: any ideas IOMMU group 12:[14e4:1639] 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20) [14e4:1639] 01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20) IOMMU group 13:[14e4:1639] 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20) [14e4:1639] 02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)