unraidnoob

Time flies.. I've been using unraid for about 10 years now and pretty much it just runs in the background for plex and other media. I'm thinking about trying to do some VM gaming on it. Where should I start? Crazy how storage has changed over time. I have 6 drives 2-3TB and a cache drive and only had to replace 1 HDD earlier this year. Completely new to gaming and VM but I'm not looking at hardcore gaming what should I buy for from a video card perspective that will make this transition smooth? I'm guessing I would play things from like fortnite and lost ark etc. I've been looking at the the AMD 5600x or G and then adding like a 1070ti and using moonlight i think? Going up to 16 gig ram can i keep mu old PSU?.. a corsair CX650. I'm running unraid 6.9.2, I'm also getting concerned that some of my drives will start failing now so just trying to be a little premptive.

thanks again Joe L!

Please help.. I just precleared 2 drives and have set one up as data disk and loaded content on it. Can it still be changed or do i need to transfer data out and preclear again? Also can the I have drives all mixed and matched? Once the disk has been assigned to the array it cannot be changed. Disks can easily be mixed and matched. Any disk can be used with any partition start. I cannot stress that enough. There are many who have used an AF drive with a partition starting on sector 63 and it did not affect their use of the drive for playing movies/music. If you are obsessed with absolute max performance of an AF drive, then yes, you'll need to transfer the files elsewhere, un-assign it from the array, and run the pre-clear again. i'm not obsessed lol this is my first time.. i just don't want to screw it up. i'll just make sure the other ones are 4k and maybe do a data swap next time my drives are full..thanks very much! so once my drive is done preclearing... i can just run this command and it will change it to 4k correct? ./preclear_disk.sh -C 64 -m [email protected] /dev/sdX

Please help.. I just precleared 2 drives and have set one up as data disk and loaded content on it. Can it still be changed or do i need to transfer data out and preclear again? Also can the I have drives all mixed and matched?