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  1. Awesome, just got a new one mailed. Thanks support!
  2. Going to give this a bump. Would love an official reply, since i still cant get to my valuable data now.
  3. thanks for the response, and i didnt take into account they werent near my timezone
  4. Heya, i know this generally isnt the best place to ask questions about replacement keys, but i've mailed [email protected] and got a auto response that there might be a 3 business day response time (which is far to long for a key replacement tbh) Last may i replaced the motherboard/cpu and some other items in my unraid server. While setting it up my then current USB drive (Sandisk) broke down. since the general advice is to use sandisk usb drives, i bought another... Which today, broke down. Got notifications that it had write errors, and while i was rebooting to see if that would help anything the usb drive got stuck while booting. After that i had to reset, and then i got a " please insert boot device " notification. So, i loaded up a backup onto a spare USB drive i have laying around only to see that i cant replace my key till May 2021 through the automated process. While i understand the need for some protection so that people dont frontload alot of usb drives with valid keys and replace them everytime its needed. So, i emailed [email protected], and get an automated response that it might take up to 3 business days to get back to me. This isnt acceptable for such an important feature. One doesnt choose when its drive will fail, and i cant get to my data, and worse my vms now. Please assist me asap.
  5. Sorry for necro'ing this thread, but if your going to attach a virtual disk, why not let unraid handle it for you instead of doing it through the vm? then no scripts are required? nevermind, this is because that the actual gaming is being done on a normal pc, not a vm
  6. No one that has an opinion about this matter? edit: this thread can be archived, ive made a decision on buying the 3900x on the basis that i prolly would have regrets later
  7. No one that has an opinion about this matter?
  8. For your use case, out of the two options i would use the xeons and alot more ram. But seeing that thats comparing 20 cores / 40 threads to 4c8t and 192gb ram to 16GB seems a very big difference, and i would doubt the requirements you said would perform as you want on that old i7. Are you sure its a 2800k? since i cant find it on the ARK site from intel. Also you mentioned the 8700k in the OP, which is a 6c12t cpu Then again, im a sucker for just (re)using desktop hardware for home use. Servers tend to be loud and i dont have a place to store said hardware where the sound wouldnt be a problem.
  9. There is a guide from spaceinvaderone which explains alot on how to do things. Would recommend watching that. Since you can load unraid on a usb stick with a trial, you could test that aswell. Depending on how you configured the current "nas" you might need to migrate data though. If it unraid already you dont need to do alot. IOMMU Groupings are important to know if you want to passthrough an onboard audio to the windows vm. For me i went with a usb audiocard on my 7700k asrock mobo . But thats just stereo for my headset. There is a way to use pulseaudio, but i dont know it has 5.1 support.
  10. Hey folks. im contiplating a upgrade of my server/workstation setup and i would like your input on this. Current setup : Unraid server : I5 4670k - 24GB RAM 3x 512GB ssd cache 6x 8TB data disk 1x10TB parity disk In use : 34TB Old dell HBA to connect my HDDs, the SSDs are connected through the motherboard. Dockers : Plex , sonarr/radarr/lidarr/, pihole, Sab/deluge, Grafana/varken/influxdb , lets encrypt, webserver , unifi controller Manjaro XFCE Workstation : I7 – 7700K - 64GB RAM GTX 1070 1x 256GB SSD for Manjaro 1x512GB NVME SSD with a qcow2 fixed size virtual disk for my main windows vm. (mostly for gaming). 3x3TB in a Z1 storage pool (old disks) 1TB qcow2 disk for my windows vm for additional storage Old i5 laptop with a discrete gpu, but nothing to write home about. (just mentioning it) ----------------- NEW : 3900x with a Asus ROG Strix X570-E NEW 1TB SATA SSD with 2x500GB qcow2 virtual disks USED : 64GB RAM (carried over from workstation) USED : GTX 1070(2,5 slot) USED : GTX 760 (have that somewhere in my “old hardware stash” 2 slot card) VM1 Main windows (used daily): 4 cores 8 threads 24GB RAM GTX 1070 1x 512GB NVME with the qcow2 fixed size virtual disk carried over from my workstation 1x 500GB qcow2 virtual disk for games on the new 1 TB SSD VM2 Main Linux (used every other week): same stats as windows, yet on a 256GB SSD only runs when windows isn’t running. VM3 Firewall Sophos XG : 2 cores 4 threads 6GB RAM most likely storage on one of the ssds, wont need much (10gb should suffice) 2 nics assigned. VM4 gaming VM : 4 cores 8 threads 16GB RAM GTX 760 (perhaps upgrade this to a 1660 somewhere along the way) 1x 500GB qcow2 on the 1 TB ssd The main reason I want the ROG Strix x570-e is that it has 2 nics build in and is affordable. However I couldn’t really find if It separate USB controllers into multiple iommu groups so I could give each gaming vm its own usb controller since I cant use another addin card. The top PCI 16x Slot would have the GTX1070 (2,5 slot card), the second 16x slot would have the 760 and the last one would be the HBA I have from dell. That’s also why I would need 2 onboard nics. I prefer not to hassle with risercards and since the case im working with (Corsair Obsidian 750D) doesn’t have space to put a card other than the standard locations I just don’t really care for janky solutions 😉 The reason I mention the laptop is because my better half used to use it to game on it, but since its really showing its age I would like for her to use it with Parsec / nvidia inhome streaming. But seeing as we don’t really have a lot of time , that gaming VM usually is going to be turned off till she has some spare time, so that resources could be assigned to plex when its turned off.. and when she decides to play, start another docker/change settings so it has less cpu to work with. I could then try and sell the i7 7700k system , or just use it as a backup. Option 2 is to keep the 7700k as is, and just upgrade the old i5 to a ryzen 5 3600. However I would prolly need to ditch the firewall from that setup or just reduce the cores of both the gaming/firewall vm so unraid keeps his resources to keep running. Pros option 1: Just one beastly machine. Could scale up resources on a vm if I need it. Awesome to make? Cons option 1: Harder to maintain. (if unraid is down, I got nothing). About 850 euro’s for the motherboard/cpu Performance of one VM/Docker might impact the other? Pros option 2: A lot cheaper Easier to run Not as dependent on 1 system Cons option 2: Less resources Im unsure it would meet my performance requirement for everything I want on that machine. Upgrading to a 3700x would lessen the gap for the 3900x by a lot. What would you guys suggest doing or have I missed things that might be even better than the options I stated? Thanks a bunch in advance