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@testdasi Thank you so much for your valuable input. The GPU is an RX580 (as you have correctly guessed) - I specifically bought an AMD card as I have heard of all the issues with the NVIDIA GPUs when passing them through. - The Supermicro motherboard has an onboard GPU and the Xeon E3 has another integrated iGPU, so I hope that passing through the RX580 will be work. I did not fully understand the vdisk with appropriate config. Could you please elaborate? I would not add the SSDs to the pool as mixing mechanical drives and SSDs does not seem like a good idea. Do I assign the SSDs to the cache? Thank you in advance for assistance.

Dear Unraid community, I am resuming my project of building an Unraid server with a Windows VM. A quick spec is a Supermicro X10SL7-F motherboard, an Xeon E3-1265L v3 and 32GB of ECC RAM. From the components you can see how long it has taken me . As for the storage drives I have 6 - 4 TB Seagate NAS drives for a 2 drive redundant storage, attached to the LSI Broadcom 2308 flashed to IT mode. The question I have is with how to use the 2 SSDs that I have: 1 Samsung EVO 860 1TB 1 Intel S3500 480GB (hopefully a bit powerloss resistant) The purpose is to be able to have Unraid as a storage and hypervisor for a Windows 10 pro which will be used as a workstation. The USB controller and GPU (RC 580 8GB model) should be passedthrough to it, so that it can be used as if it was a normal bare metal Windows 10 install. Option 1 is to define the Samsung 1TB SSD as a cache drive, where I would install all the dockers and with the unassigned drive plugin I would use the Intel SSD to install Windows 10. Option 2 is to reverse. Use the Intel as the cache and use the Samsung for my Windows 10 installation. I would like to have your input on what you think should be the best setup. I also thought of just passingthrough the 2nd SATA controller to Windows, however that way I could not have the dockers/plugins on an SSD. I understand that all my options do not provide any redundancy to the SSDs, however I’ll keep all files on the NAS storage and just have the installations on the SSDs. Many thanks in advance for all your assistance.

Dear all, As a potential unRAID customer, I would like to know how the purchased license work with updates? When buying the current version (6.7.2), will I need to buy it again if the new release comes out (ex.: version 7 or above?) and I would like to update to it? Or is this a lifetime license, which would mean that if I buy the current version I will be able to update it indefinitely? I tried to get more information on the main page, however the only information I get is regarding the number of HDDs and which plan to choose from. Many thanks in advance for your clarification. Best regards, J

Unfortunately no discount for this Black Friday. What a shame PS: Even though I currently use FreeNAS I was considering trying unRAID for a nice price.

@archedraft and @CHBMB Thank you for both your assistance. As for the DVD, I thought of the VM way, however I was curious if it could be done directly from unRAID. I would also probably just use a linux VM and assign the DVD there instead of having to use a windows one with a licence key . As for my configuration, Dell T20 has a server motherboard that supports all kind of VT that my CPU does. I even have the IPMI configured in order to be able to play with the BIOS without needing a monitor or keyboard in the system. Sorry for this off-topic however as it is related to the move from FreeNAS to unRAID I thought it would be better to keep it in the same topic. I hope the OP agrees .

@archedraft Thank you very much for your fast and clear replies. As for the backups I'll still have to see how I will proceed. My current issue was that I have information scattered on 3 laptops, 4 Smartphones / tablets, 2 external drives and some USBs. The point of a NAS is to centralise everything and hopefully provide some fault tolerance. By the way I have read the post on backup that you have linked to, very interesting. Unfortunately FreeNAS is unable to mount external HDDs and write to them. The process is always connect the external HDD to a laptop and copy into it from the lan. Does unRAID allow us to mount and write directly to external HDDs? Would I be able to mount a DVD drive and share it over lan (this is interesting for media players that don't have a DVD drive and when you don't have it ripped or just want to play something fast)?

Hi all, this is my first post in your forum. I have been coming to this forum for a while, and now that unRaid 6 is out I would like to ask if my setup would be possible. I am currently using FreeNAS 9.3 with 2 volumes. One in RAIDZ1 [3x4TB HDDs] and another volume with only 1 HDD (1TB) for the TV recording target. Would I still be able to keep the 2 volumes separated under unRAID or would I have to change to 1 volume with 4 HDDs (3x4TB + 1x1TB)? I am asking this because the 1TB HDD has a RPM of 7200 while the 4TB ones are NAS drives with 5900 RPM. Furthermore, I don't really care if the 1TB drive dies, as the important TV recordings get transferred to the other volume, however I really want to keep the volume with 3x4TB HDDs safe. Does unRAID also do scrubs / SMART HDD / temperature monitoring? Would you consider it to be reliable with important data? As a side note what base OS is unRAID built on? Is it FreeBSD like FreeNAS? My setup is the following: Dell T20 (server motherboard) with E3-1225v3 / 12GB ECC RAM / 3x4TB Seagate Surveillance + 1TB Dell drive that came with the system. Many thanks in advance for your input and sorry for kind of hijacking the topic.