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Howdy all I recently finished my basement, it’s about time I started looking at my Unraid system for upgrades and expansions. The wife has given me carte blanche to bring my home office up to date so I can tackle the task anyway I see fit...a dangerous situation While I probably will have the standard “What about this part or that part” question we all have when it comes time to upgrade our servers. I have some more fundamental questions and hope, as always, that the experts and enthusiasts on the forums can shed some light on them. Background on my current server: Over the years I have tried to use my Unraid for a whole slew of purposes but have narrowed it down to a handful: Plex, Pi-Hole, Ubooquity, AirSonic Honestly, I always feel bad I don’t use it for more stuff but never needed any of the other amazing features for more than a project or two Since the beginning of VMs, I have also used this box as my sole system for general productivity/gaming ASRock X99 Extreme4/3.1 Intel® Core™ i7-6850K CPU @ 3.60GHz 48 GB DDR4 6TB Parity 19TB Disk Pool (1) Gaming VM 1060 GB Passed Through Questions: Gaming VM do people still find it good for that? I have had some oddities over the past few years but having one power supply and one case saved money and space, so I live with it. Heck, I can still play new games at 1080p with no issue (no real plans ever to head to 4k…20 inches from a screen I can never see the difference). I just find myself these days asking if it’s better to get a stand-alone gaming rig in parallel to the server. Is it worth taking my existing setup and transplanting it into a new rack-mounted case? With my basement remodel I have created a 600 sq. ft office for myself and plan on running all networking into it and eyeing a ceiling-mounted rack or floor rack though that does get tied into question one a bit. Can the old girl keep up? I know some of her parts are showing their age but not in performance…age, in this case, is just a number 😊 (Not Unraid Specifically) How does everyone feel about the Ubiquiti line of equipment? One piece of the network I do need to focus on is my Asus RT-AC88U, I try to run everything in my house as wired, and a 24 switch will help, but find myself asking if is it worth doing the network to uber levels or building a new Unraid and or gaming rig first. As always thanks for all the advice/support

Thanks! i'll try the link again (i did find that link when this journey began) Yeah I've been spending a good while in google world for this I've tried PSID reverting, tried ultimate boot cd, sedutil, magic magican It looks like it's ata locked and that's where things get a little tougher

I recently bought an old HP Gen 8 server from a mom and pop architecture firm going out of business The hardware itself is nothing special but inside i was shocked to find 8 2TB Samsung Pro 850 SSDs What a find for a 500 bucks But their previous IT guy for some reason locked each drive with a password I've tried a bunch of things to crack these dries open I don't want any of the data at all just hoping to utilize the drives for my home server I thought I would put the question to the experts who always help me in the past with server questions Anyone know a way to get into an 850 SSD that has a hard drive password on it? More than willing to part with one as payment if someone can assist

So building a new windows 10 VM the first thing I do is install a AntiVirus, Avast once it's settled in This time, using the latest Unraid beta, after the install finished the VM froze I had to Force stop Then booted up said no partitions found Not a huge deal as it was a new VM So I rebuilt it, and again tried to install Avast the installer froze, the VM froze, once again the VM had to be put down Third time same thing only this time I tried to install avast on one of my Unassigned drives rather than the VM's cache Same thing Now before I rebuilt my VMs I did have Avast running just fine Is anyone having an issue install the latest Avast onto the latest Unraid? If so did you find a work around? Or can anyone recommend an AntiVirus, and AntiSpam software they love in the mean time I'm trying Webroot plus Spamfighter...just sucks I paid for two years of Avast lol