seredin

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  1. You have functionally already taken one drive out of the array: the recently deceased drive. You must now add an additional drive to the array and allow that drive to be rebuilt from parity. Your "empty" drive is fully assimilated into the party maths and must be accounted for thusly. It cannot be removed until after this procedure has been followed.
  2. Chiming in to say I'm rooting for you, because I seek this as well. Have you tried the things detailed in this post? It specifies that a certain build of Windows is required as well as enabling nested virtualization from your terminal. I have tried a number of things myself but have not gotten even as far as you've made it, apparently. Interested to know if this will ever be solved and accessible to non-power-users.
  3. I run an AsRock Rack X470D4U, which also only offers USB 3 in its various permutations. It does not even have an internal USB 2.0 header. I'll give a brief history of my booting experiences: When I first bought the board, I had the usual IT-tinkerer's collection of no-name flash drives, or brand name flash drives that were quite old (like pre-USB3 old). I tested every flash drive I owned using Unraid trial keys, and every single stick gave me similar results: Some sticks simply would not boot AND I had to physically change stick ports every time I rebooted my machine, and this only booted correctly most of the time. Obviously, this all but eliminated remote management feature benefits, which were hugely impactful in my motherboard selection criteria. I bought my Pro license and lived with these reboot headaches for about 6 months, complaining all over the internet about how unacceptable it was that in 2019/2020 we still can't boot Linux from USB 3, and texting my wife from work to "please do the thumb drive swap thing" every time I needed to reboot using remote management. Then my flash drive of choice (read: the last drive I used in my testing that happened to boot on the first try) failed catastrophically. I also happened to have every other flash drive in my possession filled with various sundry files or OSes. PLUS, SpaceinvaderOne (may the olde gods shine favor on his lineage til the heat death of the universe) just had posted his Flash Drive Testing video. So I bought a SanDisk 32GB Cruzer Fit USB 2.0 Flash Drive - SDCZ33-032G-G35, swapped my key and imported my flash backups. It booted on the first try. My mind was blown. It even reboots seamlessly without having to swap USB ports. Praise Linus. All this to say, I think certain flash drives support booting better than others, and I think USB 3 gets an undeserved bad rep for it.
  4. Man, good effort. Has anyone managed to get this working? PSU stats exported to telegraf / influxDB would be amazing.
  5. I love this community, and the ease of startup (as a nearly complete noob, got my first VM up and running yesterday!) I would like to see some native USB creation tools within the GUI
  6. Hey Skrumpy I'm in a similar boat as you, but I don't have the experience yet and my needs are lower. All I'm hoping to accomplish is a virtual 1080p light gaming (Dark Souls Remastered at the most) machine for myself, a virtual 1080p light gaming (WoW at the most) machine for my wife, a basic home media storage solution for my family with mobile streaming options (to tablet, phone, laptop, etc), and preferably a virtualized pfSense router on top of that. Bonus points for remote access options for management purposes. Both virtual machine peripherals would be in the same room as the server, not but 5 feet away. I was planning on recycling some parts from my current daily driver build, and this PCPartPicker list (or similar) is what I've come up with. But the reality, similar to you, is that I don't know how beefy these things need to be. Does a Ryzen 7 2700 provide enough cores at sufficient speeds? How much RAM does a virtual light use (but still gaming capable) machine really need and at what speeds? Are there limitations on which GPUs can be passed through? How much utility bill benefit would I really observe going with a low TDP CPU vs say a Threadripper? It's surprisingly hard to find people having done this in groups with discussions to peruse, unless I'm looking in all the wrong places. I agree with you that this should be fully accessible even on lower budgets today with the hardware capabilities we're seeing and the price drops we're enjoying (aside from RAM).
  7. Currently planning and building my first unRAID server now. Some bling would certainly start things off nicely Also unRAID and I share a birthday ❤️