Mazdaspeeding

Your post struck a chord with me because being able being able to play video games with my father is what sent me down this rabbit hole as well. I recently got my setup working pretty well and I think I'm starting to get a handle on some of this stuff. If you want, shoot me a PM and I'll send you my email and we can collaborate on some of this stuff off board.

Awesome, that picture cleared it right up. I had tried the /dev/disk/by-id but I was using virtio as the bus. I'll try it was sata as soon as I get home. I'm sure this question gets asked a lot around here, but I'm glad someone was here to help. I may be a VM noob right now but this unRAID stuff is blowing my mind and teaching me tons of stuff. I'll try to pay it forward if/when I can!

That's my issue, user error when searching. I spent all last night searching google which usually lead me to this forum and followed several sets of directions I found here, but I wasn't searching this forum directly. Doh. Thanks!

So I'm mainly a gamer but I was inspired recently with nVidia's latest "GPU in the cloud" GRID service and the overall state of streaming games/3d over a network and it got me thinking about doing something similar on my PC on my home network. My end goal is to be able to split my gaming desktop into two VMs each with a GPU and then my father could play video games with me on my PC either by hooking up a monitor/mouse/keyboard or by using nvidia gamestream to his laptop. I watched LTT do the 2 gamers 1 PC video and the 7 gamers 1 PC video and decided I had to try it out and I've had great success setting up a Win10 VM on a vdisk on an unassigned drive and passing through the GPU and USB controller. But it's still a vdisk residing on a XFS partition and performance is not the best it could be and is a little inconsistent. I am not sure if this is possible but I would like to passthrough a Samsung Evo 250GB SSD to a Windows 10 VM directly. I would like to have it be recognized directly as a Samsung SSD and not a virtual disk. I'd like the disk to be NTFS and if I can install Samsung Magician on the VM and recognize my SSD I'll be happy. I do not mind if unRAID cannot even see the Samsung, in fact I'd prefer it. My hardware specs are as follows: i7 4790k, 32GB DDR3, 2x GTX 970(1 is currently out for RMA), Asrock Z97 Extreme 4 and for storage, 1x 2TB WD HDD data drive, 1x 240GB Kingston SSD data drive, 1x 480GB PNY SSD as Cache and 1x 250GB Samsung 850 EVO unassigned. I do not have any parity right now, although I have ordered more drives and will remove the kingston ssd at that time. I have plugged all my array/unRAID drives in to the 4-port Intel Z97 Sata controller on my motherboard and I have an ASM1062 sata controller built into my motherboard with 4 SATA ports (nothing connected to them though currently, although in the future I'd like to use them) and I also purchased an add-in ASM1062 PCI-e 2 SATA port controller that I've connected the Samsung to. I've successfully passed through both my GPU and my motherboard's 4-port Intel USB controller with my peripherals connected (keyboard, mouse, USB DAC) and unRAID is running off a 32GB USB 3 drive connected to the ASM1042A USB controller built into my motherboard. My next step is I'm thinking I may switch my array disks to the built in 4 port ASM1062 and try to passthrough the Intel Z97 controller instead to the VM since I've had good luck with the Z97 USB passthrough. But I'd like to add more drives to the array in the future and I only need 1 port for the Samsung so ideally I'd like to passthrough the 2 port PCIe ASM1062 and keep the builtin 4 port ASM1062 assigned to unraid. Should I buy a different PCIe SATA controller (that isn't the same as 1 on my motherboard) if that makes things easier? If I do that, what controller card is best? TL;DR: I wish to passthrough a Samsung 850 EVO to a Windows 10 VM in it's entirety and be recognized as a Samsung 850 Evo in the Windows Device Manager and not a virtual disk. I do not need unraid to be able to access the drive in any way shape or form and would prefer if unraid has no access to it. I run all my other VMs off my cache drive but I'd like my gaming VM to have the absolute best performance possible with it's own drive. How can I do that? If I need a different SATA controller card I'll buy it or whatever I may need to get this to work. I've listed all the relevant info I can think of below: 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0c00] (rev 06) 00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor PCI Express x16 Controller [8086:0c01] (rev 06) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0412] (rev 06) 00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Controller [8086:8cb1] 00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family ME Interface #1 [8086:8cba] 00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (2) I218-V [8086:15a1] 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI Controller #2 [8086:8cad] 00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:8c90] (rev d0) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 4 [8086:8c96] (rev d0) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 6 [8086:8c9a] (rev d0) 00:1c.6 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 7 [8086:8c9c] (rev d0) 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI Controller #1 [8086:8ca6] 00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family Z97 LPC Controller [8086:8cc4] 00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] [8086:8c82] 00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller [8086:8ca2] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] [10de:13c2] (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio device [0403]: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 High Definition Audio Controller [10de:0fbb] (rev a1) 03:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller [1b21:0612] (rev 02) 04:00.0 SATA controller [0106]: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller [1b21:0612] (rev 01) 05:00.0 USB controller [0c03]: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1042A USB 3.0 Host Controller [1b21:1142] /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/0/devices/0000:00:00.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/1/devices/0000:00:01.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/1/devices/0000:01:00.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/1/devices/0000:01:00.1 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/2/devices/0000:00:02.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/3/devices/0000:00:14.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/4/devices/0000:00:16.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/5/devices/0000:00:19.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/6/devices/0000:00:1a.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/7/devices/0000:00:1c.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/8/devices/0000:00:1c.3 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/9/devices/0000:00:1c.5 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/10/devices/0000:00:1c.6 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/11/devices/0000:00:1d.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/12/devices/0000:00:1f.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/12/devices/0000:00:1f.2 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/12/devices/0000:00:1f.3 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/13/devices/0000:03:00.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/14/devices/0000:04:00.0 /sys/kernel/iommu_groups/15/devices/0000:05:00.0 [0:0:0:0] disk Lexar USB Flash Drive 1100 /dev/sda 32.0GB [1:0:0:0] disk ATA KINGSTON SUV400S 96R9 /dev/sdb 240GB [2:0:0:0] disk ATA WDC WD20EZRX-00D 0A80 /dev/sdc 2.00TB [3:0:0:0] disk ATA SSD2SC480G1CS175 1101 /dev/sdd 480GB [33:0:0:0] disk ATA Samsung SSD 850 2B6Q /dev/sdf 250GB ls -l /dev/disk/by-id total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 16 19:11 ata-KINGSTON_SUV400S37240G_50026B766A006046 -> ../../sdb lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 16 19:11 ata-KINGSTON_SUV400S37240G_50026B766A006046-part1 -> ../../sdb1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 16 19:11 ata-SSD2SC480G1CS1754D117-514_PNY43150000099990399 -> ../../sdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 16 19:11 ata-SSD2SC480G1CS1754D117-514_PNY43150000099990399-part1 -> ../../sdd1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 16 19:38 ata-Samsung_SSD_850_EVO_250GB_S21NNSAG455990F -> ../../sde lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 16 19:38 ata-Samsung_SSD_850_EVO_250GB_S21NNSAG455990F-part1 -> ../../sde1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 16 19:38 ata-Samsung_SSD_850_EVO_250GB_S21NNSAG455990F-part2 -> ../../sde2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 16 19:38 ata-Samsung_SSD_850_EVO_250GB_S21NNSAG455990F-part3 -> ../../sde3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 16 19:38 ata-Samsung_SSD_850_EVO_250GB_S21NNSAG455990F-part4 -> ../../sde4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 16 19:11 ata-WDC_WD20EZRX-00D8PB0_WD-WCC4M1534466 -> ../../sdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 16 19:11 ata-WDC_WD20EZRX-00D8PB0_WD-WCC4M1534466-part1 -> ../../sdc1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 16 19:11 usb-Lexar_USB_Flash_Drive_AA96DJ30BZACPDQZ-0:0 -> ../../sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 16 19:11 usb-Lexar_USB_Flash_Drive_AA96DJ30BZACPDQZ-0:0-part1 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 16 19:38 wwn-0x15333806917760667650x -> ../../sde lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 16 19:38 wwn-0x15333806917760667650x-part1 -> ../../sde1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 16 19:38 wwn-0x15333806917760667650x-part2 -> ../../sde2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 16 19:38 wwn-0x15333806917760667650x-part3 -> ../../sde3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 16 19:38 wwn-0x15333806917760667650x-part4 -> ../../sde4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 16 19:11 wwn-0x259297387829550989x -> ../../sdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 16 19:11 wwn-0x259297387829550989x-part1 -> ../../sdd1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 16 19:11 wwn-0x4839972860202209281x -> ../../sdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jan 16 19:11 wwn-0x4839972860202209281x-part1 -> ../../sdc1