DonFale

Sorry! For all the late answers. I was absent for pretty much a year in this forum and a lot has happened to my. after a loss in my Family and finding a new workplace/moving i couldnt use my Setup anymore because of its size/form factor so i did forget about unraid for a while but ill try to answer your questions. 1. Gaming Perdormance is great, no lag or tearing on my end 2. pretty much at the top of my guide there is mentioned that you can set a fixed filesize wich i use, but you could also make it auto expandable. 3. i pretty much did that because i had no local space on my disks and i couldnt expand since i used all my sata lanes/ports. (And there just wasnt enough space in the case) ill add a pictures of my pc desk solution so you can see why i had to use unraid for external media like games. all the internal drives i had for mass storage are full with files i need for work. Sure you can do this BUT only access the files with one drive at a time or it will cause really bad loading times and as mentioned from another user above corrupt your saves.

Sorry for the late answer. The video i mentioned was the official video limetech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYuELiNKzZA

Im glad someone found this usefull

Hello! i really hope I am at the right sub forum with my little guide. Since there is a Video Guide about Steam and Origin but not Battle.net i thought i would write a little guide here on how to install your games on a network storage like unraid or similar even with the battle.net launcher or blizzard game installer does not support network locations or sym. and mk links. If its the wrong sub forum feel free to move it! In this Guide we will create a virtual HDD on a network storage device like unraid and "code" a little script to automatically mount it when we launch the battle.net launcher. Since its an .vhd file it would be a pain in the ass without the script since you would need to mount it after every restart again in the "Disk Management" part of the system settings but with the script it works like a charm! I am really sorry i cant provide you with English screenshots of every step but i will try to explain how everything works and give my best with my limited English skills. So lets start. STEP 1 - Create a .vhd File in the Disk Management Version A - Create a big .vhd with its final size and just move it to the User Share (slower) Go into the "Disk Management", click "Action" and select "Create virtual HDD". Just save it directly to the Desktop, apply the size you want it to be like 250GB and set it so a fixed size and click OK. Select your newly created Disk on the bottom of HDD list in the "Disk Manager" with a right click and "initialize" it. Select MBR and press ok, now create a new Volume and assign a drive letter. (you only need to assign it ONCE! i choose Z since its Blizzard) Eject the newly created HDD and move it to its new location on your user share (this transfer may take a while depending on the size of your choosing) Version B - Create a small . vhd File and move it to its final destination and expand it with a few commands (faster) Follow the Steps above but only make the .vhd a few gb big - like 5GB for example and move it to its final location on the user share. Now you need to open the command prompt, enter "diskpart" and press enter. the diskpart cmd window should appear. Now follow my Instructions like its shown on my Screenshot: STEP 2 - Mount it automatically with a click onto the Battle.net launcher Now we need to create 2 files. 1 .bat file which will be the executable and 1 .txt file which will tell the .bat what it needs to mount. You can put these 2 files anywhere in your system it doesn't really matter where they are but i saved them into my Dropbox so i have access to it on all of my PCs but you definitely could save it on the user share itself. REM = Notes in the script - they will not be executed but if you want you can delete them. .txt - tell diskpart to mound the .vhd Open the Editor/Notepad and insert the following: SELECT VDISK FILE="Location of your virtual HDD " REM >>> SELECT VDISK FILE="\\UNRAID\Games\BlizzDrive\BlizzardHDD.vhd" ATTACH VDISK Save it as normal .txt file and remember the name for the following .bat file. .bat - Making the executable file Open the Editor/Notepad and insert the following: @ECHO OFF SET VirtualDiskLocation="Location of your virtual HDD" REM >>> SET VirtualDiskLocation="\\UNRAID\Games\BlizzDrive\BlizzardHDD.vhd" SET DiskPartScriptLocation="Location of your Diskpart Script .txt file" REM >>> SET DiskPartScriptLocation="C:\Users\USER\Dropbox\SCRIPT\BlizzMountSkript.txt" ECHO SELECT VDISK FILE=%VirtualDiskLocation% > %DiskPartScriptLocation% ECHO ATTACH VDISK >> %DiskPartScriptLocation% ECHO Mounting %VirtualDiskLocation%... DiskPart /s %DiskPartScriptLocation% sleep 20000 start "" "Location of your Battle.net Launcher.exe" REM >>> start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Battle.net\Battle.net Launcher.exe" exit Save as .txt file and change the extension to .bat so it will be an executable or save it directly as .bat file the "sleep 20000" is the delay until the client starts - 20000 = 2 seconds ( about 2 seconds work fine for me but your mileage may vary so you might need to adjust it slightly) STEP 3 - Making the Magic work Now just link your Battle.net launcher icon to the .bat file instead the normal launcher.exe and feel the magic. If you launch it now there will be 2 windows opening for a few seconds for the mounting purpose but they will be automatically closed. After 2s the Launcher will start and everything is ready - dont forget to change the default install location now to the new "internal" .vhd hdd and everything works like it would normally do with a normal hdd inside the pc. HAPPY GAMING! Greetings from Austria -DonFale Edit: Works like a Charm for Origin! Since Origin doesnt support Network Drives this makes the life much easier once its set up. Perfect Timing for the upcoming Blockbuster Battlefield 1!