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Thanks - and unaid can copy from normal windows drives without any problems? What about from a storage space?

I currently have 4 HDDs (6TB, 4TB and 2x2TB) on my Windows 10 PC that are in a storage pool and contain my media, personal files etc in addition to an SSD for the OS. I want to convert this machine to a unraid machine with a Windows 10 VM (and others to come) running on top, but I'm struggling to work out how to move the data. So far I have: 1. Setup unraid USB 2. Install a new 6TB which will be the parity drive once move complete, but use as an array disk initially 3. move files from old 6TB to new 6TB. Then add old 6TB to array 4. Repeat stage 3 for other drives until all data is within unraid 5. Add SSD to create cache drive 6. Change one of the 6TB drives into a parity drive My questions are: 1a. How do I do stages 3&4? Can unraid see NTFS disks outside of the array and copy data across to the array? I.e I can have the drives all connected to the same motherboard, move the data and do reboots, add to the array etc as necessary? 1b. Can unraid read data from a storage pool, or do I need to remove the storage pool in windows before stage 1? 2. What's the best order to do 5 and 6? Thanks in advance.

Thanks will check out the geforce cards

Thanks everyone - very impressed with the community response to my 1st post. Very helpful rather than the 'use Google's response you get on some forums! Speccing up new PC (thinking i7-6700k and a z170 mobo - not sure which one yet) this weekend - looking forward to configuring. I'm going to get a couple of cheap graphics cards and monitors so I can create VMs for the wife and kids. Any recommendations for GPUs? We won't be gaming (kids are under 7) - I used to use fanless HD6450s back in the day before I got integrated mobos

Thanks - I'll look into delugevpn and rtorrentvpn. I'm using PIA with utorrent, but I bet there's a better solution. No, you will not be able to do any of this without VT-d there is no way around this (Your subject line clearly states "Non VT-D Installation"). UnRAID doesn't need a GPU, however it will grab one if it is there and available, however any VM will still be managed by the host/hypervisor which would then allocate/assign resources to the VM. To do this with a GPU (or any physical hardware device), you need VT-d, as the VM is a child to UnRAID as the parent. The best you can do is boot UnRAID in GUI mode, however that environment is not meant for anything more than UnRAID management. Thanks - that answers 2a and 2b as I'll install unraid when I upgrade my mobo and CPU. Any pointers on 3? I'm assuming that's a 'Yes'.

Hi I'm considering buying UNraid for my Plex/Home Server that also doubles as my main Win10 PC, because I've had another drive go and it's a pain in the ass to replace. I have a couple of questions please: 1a. Is it possible to install Unraid on my PC and have it boot directly to Windows 10 with Unraid running in the background? My family occasionally use my PC, so I need something that lets them reboot and login easily if necessary if I'm not there i.e. I don't want them having to use Unraid to boot into Windows 10 1b. building on 1a, is it possible to have unraid boot, a Win8 VM boot in the background (I use this for torrents with a VPN and I'm happy controlling by RDP) and for the Win10 machine to be the 'live' machine on the screen? Is there a better solution to this e.g. using a docker to run utorrent behind a VPN? 2a. I'm planning on upgrading my mobo and CPU in the future to one that supports VT-d. Will this be fairly easy to do i.e. Unraid will take care of virtual driver updates etc? Or would it be best to do a fresh Win10 install on top of Unraid? 2b. As part of the upgrade I'll probably upgrade my cache drive and create a pool. Is this as easy as stopping the array, remove the old cache (make sure it's synced!), and add the new cache pool drives? 3. With a parity drive in place, if a drive fails, all files are still accessible until a replacement drive is added? Thanks in advance for any help