EmersonSC

What did you end up with? I'm still trying to find something that foots UNRaids bill, that isnt junk. I got a Samsung one that was close to their specs but its already dying and am desperate to find something reliable.

You posted a link to a post I'm confident the OP knows about (who doesnt at this point), which points out the very recommendations they're saying are no longer available, from a test two years ago. How helpful 👏 FYI: the TOP THREE from that post for the US are NO LONGER AVAILABLE. Go ahead and click the links.

Having the same problem...

I'm not going to lie... this left me slightly more confused. Since "cache" and the pool are essentially the same thing, what SHOULD i be doing with them? With all my docker containers in my 1tb cache, should I move some over to the "pool"? Do the cahce/pool drives get utilized in read rights to the array in some way?

I don't know if I necessarily have any specific need. Just want to make sure I'm set up properly and using unraid to its potential. I mostly use it to for my Plex and HA sever as well as the windows 11 VM which has blue iris on it for my cameras. The cameras actually record to a 4gb HDD thats specific use is for NVRs (unmounted and passed through to the VM). I'm also looking to move off my google reliance and use something like Nextcloud. And I love Paperless-ngk because I have a lot of pdf documents from work, medical issues, etc. I found a cool app that helps us organize our huge book of recipes. Plus am working on setting up a couple minecraft servers for my kids.

I've been running unraid for a few months now and first off i have to say its an addiction. I'm constantly searching for new things to add to my setup. I love how easy it is to manage and setup, even the more "complex" stuff. With that said, I have read the documentation, but I'm still confused on how to properly utilize and optimize the different storage options. I have an array setup with thee 8gb HDDs with a 10gb HDD parity. I then have a 1TB m.2 drive as my cache, and two 250gb in the pool. I have all of my personal files on the array, the docker apps and VMs on the Cache, and nothing on the pool as I'm just not sure what its use is. I have an HA and Win11 VM. Docker containers are things like influxdb, next cloud, paperles ngk, etc.

Yes IOMMU was enabled, but what I THOUGHT was the setting for the iGPU was not. So I did what you recommended and below and im up and running!

I did that AND what was suggested below and i'm up and going, thank you very much!

So if im understanding you correctly, in my BIOS i need to set my iGPU as my primary?

Intel 1290k MSI Z-690-A board. Official Plex Media Server. Installed Intel-GPU-Top, but when i go to the terminal and type in cd /dev/dri i get no such file or directory. What am I doing wrong here?

Intel 1290k MSI Z-690-A board. Official Plex Media Server. Installed Intel-GPU-Top, but when i go to the terminal and type in cd /dev/dri i get no such file or directory. What am I doing wrong here?