Marco2G

And here we go with the apologists. It's like if Volvo put the backseats down on one of their models, welded them into that position and added self-driving and now, upon asking to have a self-driven five-seater and which welding spots I'd have to cut through, some schlub on the net tells me I'm obviously looking at the wrong product. Fuck me, two decades and the Linux nerds are still at it with the same haughty bullshit.

unRAID is also mainly not for me because the underlying Linux seems to be a castrated Slackware. No rpm, no make... there's one article about running unRAID on a full Slack that was for 4.4. I expect I would run into the same issues if I wanted to use the internal drives of a HP DL380 G6 server. (and do excuse me for having access to old server hardware... how dare I...) What really pisses me off is not that it's "not meant" to do what I want it to do but the fact that a full fledged Linux in fact could use FC LUNs. I mean seriously, just allow me to install the driver and unRAID could use the disks pretty much natively, I'd expect. The qla2xxx driver is far from being uncommon on Linux. Too bad FreeNAS is similarly unhelpful.

Whelp, my own tests and the lack of replies lead me to conclude that unRAID isn't for me.

Hello everyone I'm in the process of planning my server environment based on unRAID. At the moment I have four disks in Windows software RAID10. This is, obviously, not going to cut it longterm. Now I can get an old EMC Clariion diskshelf pretty cheaply and since the shelf will, without a control unit, pass through the disk, I thought that might be interesting for use with unRAID. Now the question remains which, if any, HBA to use in the box. Is it possible to install qlogic HBA drivers on unRAID? I expect at that point, de disks would appear as local disks and be available to unRAID without problem. Any thoughts?

Uhh these are SSH login attempts. It's a bruteforce attack. Where is the problem? You do have a sufficiently complex username with a sufficiently complex password that aren't dictionary words, yes? Let them try to log in. Who cares? And wasn't there a plugin that automatically sets the hosts on a blacklist for exactly this kind of behaviour? The question here isn't whether unRAID is hardened. If only port 22 is forwarded, the only question is whether the SSH server is secure.

To my astonishment, latency wasn't noticable in my Deadpool testrun. I had some skipping issues that were fixed by activating v-sync (don't ask me why). I'll test with Bioshock and perhaps Tomb Raider. If that works, then streaming is okay for me. I'll probably never play faster games than that.

My 1440p monitor will only do 30Hz over HDMI. If that wasn't the case, I would totally have tried HDMI .

It was a frustrating search, but I may have stumbled upon the right thing here: Zotac ZBOX CI323 nano. Passively cooled and has DisplayPort. I'll look into it some more to make sure there isn't something inherently wrong with this. Amazon.de reviews are pretty positive and people seem to be using this as an office machine. Sounds perfect.

I assumed that the SteamLink does not offer a full fledged Linux OS. I have my doubts that it coiuld open an RDP session or something along those lines.

I just tried it with a game and it seems to work! So basically I could have a mini pc with DisplayPort here on which I'd install linux and the steam client. Now the only question remains, which mini pc would that be? Intel NUC system look good but do I really need a Core i processor? I'd prefer it if the machine was passively cooled. In fact, without that, the whole project makes no sense .

Yes, I thought about it but does it stream non steam games as well? Can I stream from a windows machine to a linux OS with steam client? Edit: Never mind, it seems to work. This might indeed be a way to go.

Well, let's see: At the moment I have a mediacenter in the living room that is basically a normal PC with Windows 7 and a four disk RAID 10 which is shared with the gaming pc. It's attached to my tv for watching content and has an SSH server running for tunneling from my work computer. Also BitTorrent. This is always on. Then I have my gaming PC with Windows 10. It's watercooled and still not quiet enough. My wife and I both have users on this. I have an old Netgear router that is only providing Wififor the far side of the house at the moment and my ISP's router which provides Wifion the office side. I use Wifi almost exclusively for mobile phones. My idea is to get an old G6 or G7 server from work, stuff it with disks (perhaps with SSD cache) and install unRAID on it. Then I would run a VM with pfSense for all my routing and firewall needs. Another VM that could be linux which would hold my Kodi mediacenter software. As I understand it, the NAS and BitTorrent parts would be handled by unRAID. A third VM running windows 7 (or 10 with extremely restricted internet access) would have a GeForce card attached through vt-d and would be my gaming rig. A fourth VM could be a linux workstation for the wife and I (because I'm really fed up with windows 10...) Then I would have some device setup in the living room and another in my office to which I would attach speakers, headphones, mic, mouse, keyboard and of course the tv and monitor respectively. The receiving device would then open a console directly into a VM depending on my current needs. I would love if all this could be done over simple ethernet but as I said, from what I gathered, normal remote access protocols wont do. Certainly not Teamviewer or VNC and even latest RDP is not meant for this kind of low latency. Just to be clear, the mediacenter only needs die provide adequate latency for watching 1080p content. However, the gaming rig needs to not only be higher resolution but is more latency dependent. I mean if unRAID already offers a solution I'll feel dumb for not finding it but so far I am unsure of how to solve this without paying thousands on top of the server hardware.

Hello everyone! Since I saw LinusTechTips two gamers, one rig the idea of doing something similar just will not take it's claws out of my brain. Basically my primary problem is noise. I have pretty sensitive hearing and even the low hum of the radiator fans or the fans of the mediacenter can drive me up a wall. So I wanted to combine the idea of having one central machine with Linus' closet rig: Moving the machine entirely out of my living space. Now the problem is that Linus' solution (corning fiber thunderbolt cables and a thunderbolt hub) cost an arm and a leg and needs additional cabling through the house. It wouldn't be a problem for my gaming rig but the mediacenter is all the way across the house. I would like to use existing GigE. For the Mediacenter I though maybe a passively cooled thinclient using RDP could work, but to my eye, video playback seems choppy still. I thought about PCoIP. Teradici offers hardware expansion cards to do this but they are pricey as well and still need a thinclient. So before I sink a lot of money into this, what are options that actually would work and give a satisfactory gaming experience? I am not a hardcore FPS gamer so I don't need ridiculously minimal latency but smooth scrolling should be doable. I usually play games like Witcher, Assassin's creed, EUIV and Tomb Raider. I game at 1440p60 and the mediacenter is standard FullHD. Which of these solutions, if there are any, are most cost effective? It doesn't need to be free. It doesn't even need to be cheap (I know, that's relative) but if I can basically build a PC for the money this project costs me per workplace then it's surely too expensive. I would be very grateful for any input, be it the perfect solution or a clear "this isn't going to be possible". I just need to get this idea done with one way or another before I go insane. Regards, Marco