jordanmw

I guess I am not understanding why they all have to be spun up all the time. Usually, they spin down if not in use actively. With that many bays, couldn't you just break up your array to "hot" and "cold" storage to prevent those from being spun up unless accessing? There is an article on their site to troubleshoot that issue here: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/how-to/faq/article/why-are-my-nas-hard-drives-not-entering-standby-mode/ You could even have a cache setup that would allow your hot data to reside on ssds so drive spin would only happen when cache needs new data.

Now that is a qnap that sounds suitable to run unraid- only the higher end ones really make sense to run it on. Out of curiosity, why did you decide to run unraid on it? It seems like most functionality you are using would be available through the qnap os. I could understand if there were limitations that you were trying to overcome- but can't really see any benefit since dockers are already available with qnap units.

That's why I went with the asrock taichi x399.... all the important features without the price.

Answered privately, but here for the forum: https://www.microsatacables.com/u2-sff8639-to-pcie-4-lane-adapter-sff-993-u2-4l I had a corsair air 740 which does have a small front 2.5 bay location that I adapted by USB card to fit into.

+1 would love this support

This was similar to my experience- I had to remove the VNC video card and assign the physical- then did the remaining config on a physical attached monitor.

I had a 175Gb file that I was trying to move.

Pretty sure this is what I was seeing also Johnnie.. there is something weird with SMB file transfers with large files. I eventually gave up on transfering via SMB and cloned the entire drive to get the data moved. Wish I could do some more testing but my rig is in pretty constant use. Behavior that I saw, was that after the transfer started, it would fill up the host memory until there wasn't any left.

Also hoping we get this ported in SOON.

motherboard Asrock TaiChi x399 Usage To up to 4 vms at once with separate gpu pass through. Great for medium/heavy gaming. Enough slots and ports to get 4 GPUs, 2 m.2 NVMe, and 1 U.2 port for PLX bridge to extra 4x slot Plus points Great x99 board iommu groups are separated well. Minus points Onboard usb controller will not passthough. You will need a separate pcie usb if you want to pass through a controller. No onboard gpu. GPU EVGA GTX960 SSC Easy passthrough GPU EVGA GTX960 FTW Easy passthrough USB Sonnet Allegro Pro USB 3.0 card Great easy passthrough of all 4 controllers- works off PLX bridge with U.2 port

Anyone looking at this:

I just grabbed 2 Western Digital Black m.2 1TB drives and it seems I might have gotten the same controller in them- does anyone know what the process looks like to get these things going?

Even with bios set to channel and numa all setup within the VM, I am still getting memory used from both cores. 20ish MB? Not sure what is going on there- I can decrease the RAM to account for the 20 mb but it still grabs the same amount:

So, should they be pinned- or isolated, or both for my gaming VMs?

Are you seeing differences with the eypc CPU tweaks?

Does anyone know if the next RC or version will include some of this stuff, and maybe lstopo and hwloc? I saw lstopo mentioned.

So how exactly should I be adding this tweak? Is it in the XML of the individual machines? Where do I add it, and what should I add for a 1920x?

yeah, I'm seeing <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'> <topology sockets='1' cores='4' threads='1'/> </cpu> when assigning I'm sure I read something about this though

Trying to optimize my setup, maybe you guys will have some suggestions. Here is the setup: 1920x with 4x gtx 960 setup as 4 gaming machines and 1 game server. The performance is decent, but seems like it could be better. Here is my current config, what changes do you think I should make to optimize it? Also I saw all the info about the EYPC cache tweaks and wondering if that is something I should do also. Can someone chime in with their best guess? Brown is the game server- all other colors are individual machines with the same color graphics card as the CPUs.

Well it looks like a bios change to disable C6 in zenstates was the answer. I did that, and low and behold- 4 fresno logic USB controllers were visible. I did the vfio edit for that device and now I have all 4 controllers passed through to each gaming station. I'm picking up a few 4 port hubs from best buy on the way home and should have plug and play glory available to my crew tonight!!! YAY fallout 76 weekend for us! So nice not to have to map usb devices for them individually any more. Especially since one of my crew insists on using controllers- and likes the steam for some games and xbox for others. Also spun up a windows host for game servers- since ubuntu was more difficult to manage and wine is unhappy with some windows apps. Have Ark(both windows and steam), 7days2die, conan exiles, the forest, empyrion, and L4d2 spun up on that host and having no issues with all 4 connected locally- with 8 players from the internet- on most of those sessions where possible.

Finally got my issues solved- since I had no slots for an extra USB card- I used a U.2 to plx PCIEX4 slot and got an allegro 4 controller card. Now I just need to pass one controller through to each machine. Had some bios changes that allowed me to enable it with unraid and I am off to the races!

I was wondering that same thing. I have spun up a few more machines on my 1920x and ever since I have added an extra machine for game hosting, my IO seems slower and every once in a while, some machines will fail installs complaining about writing to the vhdx file that contains my steam libraries. I have only pinned CPUs to the 5 VMs that I have running, and not done any isolation or docker pinning. I am only running one docker right now for steamcache bundle. What is recommended for our threadrippers? Should I have isolation on for the first 2 cores/4ht?

Was this functionality added to unraid? or do I still need to download this for the hot-add usb functionality?

I have one of the sonnet cards with 4 controllers. My x399 build has all slots filled so I got an adapter for U.2 to pcie x4 thinking that I would be able to see the card with no issues, but of course am having issues. Not sure if there is a bios option I am missing, or the adapter just doesn't work as intended. I can verify that the card gets power and will light up a device when powered on, but not detecting the card. Has anyone tried that, or have any ideas? I have an Asrock Taichi x399 board and 1920x running in it.

Thanks for the suggestion- I have left the VNC video enabled- maybe that is the issue. I'll check and report back.