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I found this after searching for GUID All of the information i can find here in the forum and on the lime tech site stresses that you must use a good quality flash drive of at least 512MB that has a GUID. It goes on to say not all drives have a GUID. The question begging to be answered, how do i tell if a particular drive has a GUID before i put unRaid on the drive? Surely it isn't just trial and error? Any ideas? FWIW i have a couple of Sandisk Cruzer Facet drives i was considering using.

Hi all, I have some hardware incoming, 2 x Xeon E5 2670, ASRock EP2C602-4LD16, 8 x 8GB DDR3 1600 Reg ECC. Looking to put it to use as an unRaid VM, and need to better understand how storage works with unRaid. I have been looking around for info, most recently the Wiki here but am still clueless. I'm thinking storage is either poorly documented or maybe it's just one of those things that makes sense after you've experienced/setup first hand. The wiki explains "Assigning Devices to the Array and Cache", but does not explain what *purpose* or *role* the array or cache plays later on. When someone says cache i think of fast volatile memory on a CPU / hard disk / raid controller etc. Then there is the mention of a 'parity device' and mention of an 'array'. What are these, what are they used for, do i need one or both? I'm at a loss here, but believe i should have the aptitude for this, i have 25 years experience with computers from being a server admin in a school to building / experimenting with hardware and OS's at home! So I'm looking for an explanation on both the physical and logical parts of storage at play in unRaid. Also looking for an example of what hardware and setup is involved for fast and high IOPS storage that i can run several OS's on. Will be 1 or 2 OS's with dedicated PCIE video hardware. Several other OS's with game servers etc... I am also toying with the idea of making this machine my Windows 10 desktop daily driver / gaming rig. This will all depend on how practical the idea is, and what performance i might gain or loose vs my current machine, an [email protected]/8GB DDR3/GTX 970/240GB(OS) & 960GB(Games) SSD's The Xeon machine would be superior in number of cores, but inferior in regards to clock speed. If relevant I have a NAS for bulk / redundant data, and a separate backup solution. The NAS is capable of NFS and iSCSI if this is at all useful to unRaid. What i need to know is what is an ideal setup for fast, high IOPS storage suitable for a VM server? Your help will be much appreciated, will be happy to post my results once i'm up and running.

Hi all, Been reading a bit here and there about unRaid, but have now just scored a couple of Xeon E5-2670 CPU's with VT-d So i got to thinking that i might make a box to run a number of VM's on. Parts already acquired... 2 x E5-2670 (the ones with VT-d) Parts being considered... Motherboard: ASRock EP2C602-4L/D16 Ram: 64GB ECC DDR3 1333 RDIMM (8x8GB) PSU: Corsair HX750i (Dual 8Pin EPS12v) Disks: Not yet decided, need a hand here. Regarding storage, i'm looking for speed and IOPS. If i'm on the right track then all i need is to understand how unRaid configures the drives, or if a few options are available i'll need to decide. I can foresee using something like Raid0 / Raid 10, i don't think i really want to deal with raid 5/6 on this, no critical data will be o this box so i'll prefer speed over redundancy. I wonder if a pair of good SSD's would suffice? any suggestions? I do already own a Sandisk Ultra 960 Gig drive in my regular machine (see below for comment re using this new rig as my regular machine). Intended use is for virtual machines, no need for a file server (already have a NAS) A couple of experimental OS's (i like experimenting with different Linux desktops) A dedicated windows game server... (Digital Combat Simulator - will require a min spec GPU to run as there is not dedicated server executable yet(PITA)) A dedicated linux game server (Space engineers, minecraft) There is a vague chance i might consider using one of the VM's as my daily machine. I'm curious to know how practical this is. My current machine for reference... i5-3570K / 8GB / 240GB+960GB SSDs / GTX970 Lots of USB stuff (Joystick / throttle / pedals / trackIR / keyboard / mouse / webcam / card reader) incase it matters, as i haven't had the greatest history with USB hubs, but might need one if i go this way. So overall, i hope these CPUs are good. Hopefully someone can say weather the motherboard is a good choice. If you've read through all of this then i thank you for your time