dgwharrison

Hi, I have this plugin installed, I'm just wondering where the Profiles are? I have an Nvidia Shield and it will do quite a lot out of the box so I want to make sure it's setup right.

Hi @jonathanm, yeah it is a xeon workstation based pc I've ordered, though I'm pretty sure it's only going to have intel rapid storage raid, which I assume would be supported but I take your point. From what I can tell not Every share has to have copy on write enabled anyway which I imagine increases the available space beyond RAID1 also, is that correct?

Thanks @BomB191, I assume I can address that from a docker volume using something like /unraid_sharename right? The why is the loading of thumbs, fan art, posters etc. It's much faster from SSD when scrolling etc. So can I mount a VM in a share on the cache as well?

Hi All, I've done a bit of reading and I think I've got it but I just want to make sure. I'm going to use 2 500GB SSDs, when I allocate them to the cache pool I'll get RAID1 and the whole lot will be used for write cache, I can't use them for anything other than the cache pool right? So for example if I wanted plex to host it's media library on SSD, I would need a third SSD, is that right? I can't say dedicate 200GB of the cache pool to the write cache and use the other 300GB for stuff like plex? Assuming I'm right, and you can only use the SSDs in the cache pool as the write cache, wouldn't I be better to use the motherboard's RAID1 for performance rather than doing it in software?

Reading this https://davidyat.es/2016/09/08/gpu-passthrough/ I think it might be possible if I use another graphics card (old one I've got lying around) that will do VGA for the host, configure the host bios to initialise the card, then tell the system not to load the drivers for the integrated graphics, then pass it through. Here's hoping. thoughts?

Yeah, that's kinda what I thought... I know I can pass through discrete graphics, but it seems to be shame that I can't use the capability I'm paying for anyway in the main board. It's a coffee lake Xeon E-2146G (which I won't receive for 2 weeks it's so new) and a Asus WS C246 Pro motherboard. Anyone know if it's possible to pass through the integrated graphics to a guest?

Hi, I'm just wondering, has anyone made a nice guide for using UnRAID as a HTPC? So for example, installing plex player, how to get a remote working with it ( I have harmony for example), that sort of thing. Is it just a case of use a package manager like apt-get? is there a gui for it like Ubuntu? Does it work very well as a basic desktop supporting multiple user accounts? Or, alternatively to all that, can you just create a nice VM that does all that (say a windows 10 one) and get the console full screen all the time? Would that support 4K video playback? Usually I think headless seems to be the major use case is all. Whereas I would like to use it with my big screen as I have a cupboard it can go into with all the AV gear which is hidden away so the noise of a dozen HDDs doesn't bother me.

Thanks for the prompt response. I'm going to buy 2 500GB Samsung 970 EVOs then!

Hi, so I was wondering about how you go about achieving redundancy in the write cache for the period between being written to the cache and the cache being flushed to the parity array. Do I need to configure two SSDs as a raid in the bios using Intel Rapid Storage, or do you just supply two disks and it takes care of it at software level in UNRAID? Also I want to have a good amount of SSD space for VMs, plex transcoder cache and plex library. Do I need to buy a third SSD for that or can I use part of the mirror I either create in the first part of this question? Finally, when I'm loading up the array with my content, it's pretty obvious that I'm going to run out of cache before it's flushed to disk at night, what happens in that instance?