Cydiaz

I do not, so that's not it. In a few weeks when I upgrade my network capacity I will, if anything comes up I'll report back. As for now, still not sure what caused it, it's been running fine even after reboots ever since it connected properly.

Cheers, I did indeed retry like 20 some times and it decided to work

I'm running into the same issues that Michaelrwjenkins is describing. Tried solving it by using the code42 documentation of crashplan, but could not get it resolved. Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Thank you so much for the excellent reply, really appreciate it. Especially regarding over provisioning. When a VM is so easily scalable / manageable , why shouldn't you make a few iterations to find out the true resources, yet I never thought of it. I might scale down to a I7 6700k than instead of the beast that is 5820k, I now at least have some more information to work with, cheers!

Regarding storage; I'll be running 2 SSDs in the cache pool, but thinking dedicating 1 to the VM like you mentioned. Also, I was considering a Xeon E5 2620, because I read that more cores would be beneficial, but I'm scared it will cut into my game performance, since it doesn't have that strong of a single core performance. But a chip like the I7-5820 would be enough considering my needs? Lastly, when assigning cores to the VM, can I assign 4 of the 6 cores to the windows VM and leave 2 for unraid to transcode / memory manage etc? And when the transcoding of the streams hits 100% CPU on those 2 cores, will it pool more power from the other 4 cores reserved for windows, or does unraid just max out the 2 cores and leave the rest of the cpu alone?

Dear unRAID users, After a couple of days of research about different hardware and software raid setups I came across unraid 6. It got me very excited and now I'm thinking of using unraid as the OS for my home server. However with the virtualisation that unraid offers, I'm now thinking about hosting at least one, maybe a few VMs. One of these will be a Windows 10 VM for gaming. Here is where my question comes around : What kind of CPU benchmark do I need to run a "high" end gaming rig as VM, next to unraid and plex media server which needs to be able to handle 3 1080p streams simultaneously. For the transcoding part I know I need around 2000 passmark per stream. So can I just pick a CPU, get the passmark - 6000 and compare that to most competitive CPUs in gaming rigs? I'm looking to run one 970, possibly a 980TI in the VM, and don't want the CPU to bottleneck. I would love it if some people could shine some light on the subject of running 1 gaming (60+ fps 1080p) VM next to 3 1080p plex trancoded streams. Thanks a ton