kftX

First off, hello everyone! I'm a new user of unRAID (going on a couple months) and I have a few questions about how I set-up unRAID. I'll be as concise as I possibly can in explaining my doubts so you guys can do your best to help clear them up 🙂 Context: me and my partner changed to an unRAID server for our personal/gaming machines a few months back for the sake of having a cleaner set-up and less clutter in our living room. We've been having a great time overall and tbh I'm super happy we made the change and tbh if you told me without prior knowledge that my gaming PC is a VM, I wouldn't be able to tell. And yes, I am aware that any of these changes may force me to re-do the entire server and that's okay. I just want to do it right 😛 Anyhow, my doubts mostly revolve around adding vdisks and disk shares: Each of us is using an SSD for OS/gaming and a larger HDD for keeping the rest of our data. But: unRAID says the vDisk for my personal machine is 2.19(ish)TB in size. But my SSD is only 2TB large. Does this mean it'll eventually overflow into another SSD? Should I have done something different to stop it from doing so on set-up? I have never really understood how to add a new HDD as a network share rather than adding it as a vdisk in VM settings, I just watched a SpaceInvaderOne video about it but I'm still not 100% clear on it. Is it really as simple as going to Shares - Add Share - Included Disk and then ticking the disk you want the share to be inside of? Is there any reason why my external USB HDD is topping out at 9-10MB/s writes? This makes copying huge amounts of data a bit of a chore. For context, I am passing through the USB device itself rather than the USB ports on the mobo. In which situations would you prefer/recommend using a vDisk over a Network Share? And extra round for those who might know why this is happening: Sometimes (and at complete random) my own gaming VM will start chugging weirdly for a few seconds to a minute or two where the VM becomes completely unusable, mouse moves around slowly and such and then recovers and it's business as usual. It never happens while gaming which is the weirdest part, usually only during regular usage. This has never happened on my partner's VM. I have a Ryzen 5950X and a 3060TI passed through to the VM, vBios dumped and in use. Thank you so much for the patience in reading this! Hope you all have a great continuation of the week!