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True dat Squid! how many weekends I spent beating my head against one of the towers in my house trying to get winblows 10 to recognize the shares (WHICh ARE ENABLED IN UNRAID) on the home network. Stupid F#$% winblows! Wish Fusion360/Adobe Premiere Pro CC was Linux-able.

I'd say that's about a fair price for the hardware. How to setup VM's with dual CPU's though? Was a doddle with my E5-2630-v4.

In my case (Antech P182-SE) I have: Asus X99 Deluxe (BIOS flashed properly to support my CPU) 4x 8GB Hynix ECC DDR4 server RAM in QUAD ch Xeon E5 2630-v4 ES AMD R7 series GPU (unraid GPU - no integrated graphics on CPU) Nvidia 1060 3GB (for Winblows 10 VM - Gaming/CAD/CFD/General) PCIe 4x USB 3.0 hub (VM passthrough) Corsair GS700 - works fine. Cache drive - Samsung 960 EVO M.2 (want to double this up but might swap to 2x cheapo 512GB Sata SSD's - M.2 is literally 4x faster tho!) Boot drive - 2GB Geek Squad USB 2.0 Flash drive (backed up to the array) Array 6TB: Parity - HGST 3TB 7200RPM refurbed Sata 3 (might upgrade to 2nd parity for redundancy) Drive 1 - Seagate Pipeline 2TB 7200RPM Sata 3 Drive 2 - HGST 3TB 7200RPM refurbed Sata 3 Drive 3 - Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM Sata 3 In terms of gaming with GPU/CPU pass-through: Doesn't make a noticable difference. Can run Modern Warefare 1080p at 200+FPS. Arma 3 in 4K at 30-60FPS (playable), Asseto Corsa 4k @ 60FPS (with some setting dialed back), High scores in Benckmarks (1080p) and cinebench (thanks to 8 Hyperthreaded cores pass-through). CAD/Video Editing - The main reason for this build along with the NAS redundancy. Can run Adobe Premiere Pro CC without issues or stutters, transcodes 4K DJI/Gopro footage without a sweat in minutes. Can compute CFD(Computational Fluid Dynamics - think virtual wind tunnel) without much trouble in under an hr. Other thoughts: Swapping the 1060 to a 1080ti when the price is right. Even though a 1070 could max out my 2.1GHz CPU, the 1080ti would technically transcode faster and with the extra CUDA, could complete CFD runs faster. I seriously can't tell the difference of windows being a VM on unRaid vs bare HW. If your intending to build a multi-gamer/NAS box here are a few suggestions: Fairly newer Xeon 2-6 CORES (not threads) per gamer DDR4 (or better) quad channel (ECC recommended) 8GB MIN per gamer Depends on the Xeon you choose, 2-3GHz and large L2/L3 cache can support up to 3x 1070's a Xeon of 3+GHz will support 3x 1080ti's (all in full PCIe 3.0 x16 mode) For 3x Win 10 VM's look for mobo that has lots USB native, dual M.2, and 3x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots 2x M.2 drives for the Cache/VM homes (this will keep the OS snappy). Can set up unRaid to use 2x M.2's as cache drives, they will be mirrored for redundancy. (something I should have done with my 7yr old SSD cache drive, RIP recent Windows 10 VM) At least 3x Sata drives for your Parity/Array (These can be as little as you like, but parity must be => any one array drive). PSU to support 125-150% of the HW you plan on stuffing into this monster!

32GB Hynix ECC quad channel DDR4 on Xeon E5 2630-v4 10-core, X99 Deluxe. 2TB-4disk array (upgrading to 6TB-3disk today).

Thanks for the noob help. I was starting to think I' d have to buy for functionality. There was no warnings in the GUI, i did see on the boot screen (when the GPU was still given to the unRAID OS) that there was some kind of md5 error in the XFS on some disk, but I couldn't decypher which disk. Thanks to your helpful link I was able to get the system fully opperational including my windows 7 Pro x64! Got GPU pass-through, but it doesn't like my logitech USB keyboard.

trying to add user shares, only getting message "share media has been deleted" and does not show up in my shares. ad blocker is disabled. When i go to main page and browse drive 1, any share names i tried to add show up, but no where else, not even from another windows machine under network - tower. The only thing that shows in the network folder of tower (even if i loggin under a user name) is "flash". Brand new build, HDD's are used but SMART data is healthy, SSD is a few years old but fine for cache, even my parity drive is in good health. Am I missing something?! Are ALL the guides and videos wrong or missing things? AsRock Extreme4 3.20 BIOS 32GB Quad ch DDR4 2133 Hynix ECC RAM Xeon E5-2630 v4 (10 core/2.10GHz) 4 x 500GB HDD's (array) 1 x 1TB HDD - parity 1 x 120GB SSD - cache Everything is default setup according to Limetechs videos, but i cant seem to get any shares to work (disk or user) Also having trouble installing iso's for the virtual machine (trying to install an actual copy of windows 7 pro OEM so i can have my PC back) Array is XFS and cache is BTRFS tower-diagnostics-20161112-1828.zip