NeoDude

btrfs Raid 1 on the cache is all very well, but I've yet to actually read an official procedure for how to replace one of the drives should the worst happen. The UnRaid manual appears to have a hole with regards to this. I'm guessing it's not as easy as pulling the drive out and shoving a new one in like you would do with traditional Raid.

As far as I know, UnRaid needs to keep a display adapter for itself.

Well, I bit the bullet and have just installed Windows from scratch. All working sweet with a passed through GPU and USB3 Controller. Has there been any fixes for the issues with passing through BR/DVD burners? I've got it to show in Windows but performance is crap. Ta Chris

Hey folks, I'm currently attempting to convert my physical Win 10 machine to a VM and I'm having trouble with the conversion process. Win10 is installed on an SSD and I'm attempting to transfer the image using the command... qemu-img convert -p -O raw /dev/sdj /mnt/user/vDisks/Legolas/vdisk1.img The conversion gets to 1% and then gives an error... qemu-img: error while reading sector 9109504: Input/output error Any ideas? I'd really like to avoid having to install Windows from scratch. Thanks in advance Chris

Bottom line is if you can afford to lose whatever you store on your server then go for Beta, if you can't go for Stable

ashman: The 64GB was purely for future proofing. I don't know what else I may want to do with it in future so it seemed like a good choice. Squid: You seem to confirm my understanding of how it all works. I was thinking of pinning 4-8 cores to the Gaming VM, 4-8 cores to Plex and then having all my other dockers pinned to the same 4-8 cores so that they could share them. When I say "Gaming VM" I really mean a replacement for my current PC which is used for Gaming, Photoshop, Lightroom, Video editing, Music recording & Office.

Hey folks, I'm new to UnRaid, heard about it a few months ago in my search to replace my slow Synology DS412+ with something that could run Plex better. After browsing this forum for while my plans have kinda snowballed and I've just received a couple of dirt cheap Xeon E5-2670s . My plan now includes replacing my current gaming rig as well as the Synology with an UnRaid rig that can do it all with room for a second future workstation for the wife in the future. Although I won't be ordering most of this stuff for another few months I would be most appreciative if anybody could point out any obvious problems with my shopping list... Case: Lian Li PC-D600 (Fitted with 2x Lian Li Hot Swap Cages) PSU: Corsair HX1000i MB: ASUS Z9PE-D8 WS CPU: Dual E5-2670s (Already Own) CPU Coolers: Noctua NH-U12DX i4 x2 RAM: 8x Crucial CT5676850 (64GB Total) GPU: MSI GTX970 Cache Drives: 2x Samsung 1TB 850 EVO Parity Drives: 2x WD RED 4TB (Hoping that dual parity will be standard when I come to purchase a license) Data Drives: 2x WD RED 4TB plus 4x WD RED 3TB (Salvaged from my Synology) USB Drive: Sandisk Cruzer 16GB Also, if anybody could answer a couple of queries... CPU Pinning: I plan on running dockers for Crashplan, NZBget, Couch Potato, Sonarr as well as Plex and possibly others. Obviously if Plex is going to do a lot of transcoding it will need an appropriate number of cores pinned, but for the rest of them, do they need exclusive core pinning? If left unpinned do they just all share whatever cores are free? Is it possible to assign say 8 cores to more than one docker and have them share them? USB Passthrough: I'm assuming that I can just pass through the USB3.0 controller on the MB to my VM, plug a USB 3 Hub in, and this will mean that all USB 3 ports will act as though they are attached to my VM, leaving the USB2 ports for UnRaid? Linked to the above, when I come to add a second GPU and VM, I'm assuming I can just add another PCIe USB 3 card, pass it through to the second VM and then use a hub with this to provide the second VM with standard USB connectivity? mmm, think that about covers it for now. Looking forward to getting more involved in this community