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Got it! Thanks everyone for your help!!

Hi ejss (or anyone else who might be able to help), Were you ever able to get your issue resolved? I'm having the same situation. I have a PNY RTX A4000 GPU I'm trying to pass through to a Windows VM. Like you, I've watched and followed all of the SpaceInvader videos but wind up in the same place - black screen with 4 white dots flashing in the middle. My hardware specs are as follows: CPU: Threadripper 3970 MoBo: ASUS Zenith Extreme Alpha II RAM: 128GB GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro W5500 (slot GPU 2: Nvidia RTX A4000 So far, I've created the VM with VNC and it installed and booted up just fine. I added the virtio drivers (but left the display driver as the built-in Windows Basic Display). I installed Splashtop, shut down the VM and changed the graphics card to be the Nvidia card. I did load the vbios and the sound card from the GPU (following the instructions from the SpaceInvader video). I saved and then started the VM and got the aforementioned black screen with the four blinking dots. I've attached the log from the VM as well as a screenshot (if you look real close, you can see the four dots)! Any thoughts/insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!! vmlog.txt

Quick follow-up. I think I now understand the distinction between the main array and pool (yes, I'm a TOTAL newb). The cache pool is where I can add all of my SSD's without issue - correct? I can then move my shares to cache pool. I believe I can also set the RAID level of the cache pool. As far as the main array, however, do I still need to come up with one HDD to create the array (even though I won't be using it)?

Hi, Thank you all so much for the quick responses!! My use-case/scenario is that I currently have a Threadripper 3970 CPU with 128GB of RAM that I've been using as my daily driver running Windows 11. I would like to add a NAS to my home network to back up the other computers. Also, I want to have a place to store/host family pictures and videos without using iCloud or Google Photos (we have both Android and iPhones in the house). My thought was to take all of the SSDs I've accumulated in the past few years, add them to the workstation and turn it into a multi-purpose server (i.e. NAS, Windows 11 in a VM, and PhotoPrism for photo sharing). My concern/question is that I only have SSDs and NVME drives and I keep reading that an all-flash storage solution on Unraid would be problematic and not supported. I don't necessarily want to run ZFS, I just thought that might be a way around what I thought to be a problem. It sounds like y'all are saying that I can use the SSDs/NVME drives with Unraid out of the box and not have any issues (note - in total, I have 15 drives). If so, does it matter what filesystem I use? Thanks again for the all of the quick help!!!

I have a boatload (i.e. 15x2TB) of SSDs (no HDDs) that I'd like to press into service in building a NAS and I'd like to use Unraid for the OS. From everything I've read, I know I can't use SSDs with Unraid as data/parity drives using XFS or BTRFS. Can I use them, however, if I use the Open ZFS plugin? Is that a "supported" configuration? Thanks!