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Since my MB has two network ports and my SFP28 card has two ports, if I create a third subnet with a direct connection between the VM NIC and MB NIC (ie a third network connection) then I should be able to share across this? I would need to make sure that the VM cannot get internet access from this 3rd connection. In Unraid - can a two port card be setup with two different subnets (ie same iommu with two separate subnet addresses)

I'm about to setup a Windows 10 (or 11 haven't decided) VM. I have two spare Sata SSDs. I was going to install the VM on one instead of a vdisk and use the second as a data storage disc for the VM. The VM will also have a separate passed through NIC on a different subnet which goes to a dedicated VPN port on my router (goal is to prevent potential virus affecting the shares - so files sit on the VM after download until I screen and move them over). How would I move data from the passthrough storage disc to the server share itself? If I map a drive - will the data flow out from the dedicated VM NIC thru the VPN and back thru the router into the unraid NIC. I'd rather not and have the data stay local. Thanks in advance.

I'd love to see details - pics or a video of a step by step would be amazing

Is the website in that link supposed to be a jump screen to buy the author a coffee?

No ideas? I was thinking maybe syncthing setup as a one way sync?

I currently have two nvme 1 TB cache drives. One is setup for all app data (except plex) and the other is plex only appdata, thumbnails etc. I want to add in a 3rd cache 4tb SSD that will act as temporary storage of files transferred from a different computer before mover runs at its scheduled time. I use the appdata backup v2.5 for the first cache drive. I'm stuck in what to use for the 2nd nvme and future SSD. Since the second nvme is plex data, thumbnails, etc I THINK I would want to backup it up entirely as the first time then incremental for changes. Is this correct or should it just be a backup of the whole drive every time? It would backup in my array in my backup share. I think I would want to schedule this either after any change or look for changes every hour and back up if true. I have to decide whether to have the 4tb SSD run mover every hour to the array or every night. If it's every hour then I guess I don't need a backup for it. If I decide nightly then I do need to back up it every ??4 hours. What app(s) should I use to set this up? Thanks in advance

I ended up going with 1. Thanks everyone

I'm wondering if I can break the raid in the synology then try to mount again. The drive is full. 10TB will take awhile via network

Anyone successful with pulling data off of a synology. I have a ds713+ formatted in a raid 1 with 2 x 10 TB drives. One drive died. I pulled the working drive and installed it in my unraid. I'm trying to mount it using unassigned disks (have it and the pro running) but it won't mount? I've read other forums and unassigned disks should be able to read ext4. Any ideas or trouble shooting advice

Sorry to refresh this - I have the AOC-SLG3-2M2 and only one drive is visible as well. Is this a known issue?

Can I take my synology drive and mount it in my server using the unassigned drive plugin and copy the data over using krusader?

Back to this topic - after some building issues I'm finally ready to setup my unraid server. Is there a preferred order for setting up the tweaks? I assume to setup the tweaks prior to installing plex: Setup these up as cache only with 100GB min free space: appdata : /mnt/cache/appdata domains : /mnt/cache/domains docker image : /mnt/cache/system/docker/docker.img Then install plex. Is there anything else in the plex setup that needs to be tweaked to set the correct location of the thumbnails, appdata etc? How important is installing the Tweaks plugin and increase the: fs.inotify.max_user_watches ? I will have 20 TB of moives/TV shows/music once I copy the data over.

I assume a random user on YT. I figure the p2000 should be enough. Any thoughts regarding my other questions?

This is a great thread. Are there any issues with running some of the above ideas concurrently? IE - Hardlinking for the storage folders in the pool and the Direct disk access for the cache? I've read a bunch of forums but its hard to find the "best method" answer. With 2 x 1TB NVMe drives is it better to dedicate one for Appdata chache and the other for separate Plex app data/metadata/etc cache? I know I would lose parity but I would use CA Appdata Backup/Restore plugin for backing up both drives. Or is it better to keep it as RAID 0 and all files on the single cache? My server will be 90% Plex with the odd UHD disc being backed up with makemkv and backing up of computers in our house. No other VMs. Last question - is there any benefit of combing Nvidia GPU and RAM transcoding? I have a p2000 that will be for transcoding and 64 GB of ECC. I will have a max of 4 video steams at any given moment. There was a comment in the ibracorp youtube video - Managed to combine this RAM technique with GPU transcoding enabled and has significantly sped things up. For anyone else wondering, to enable GPU transcoding (assuming you have an Nvidia card installed) you must first add the extra parameter "--runtime=nvidia" (without quotations) and then separated by a space from the RAM parameters/any other paramaters. You'll of course also need to have set up the appropriate drivers which you can find in Community Applications. A working config will look a little something like this "--runtime=nvidia --device=/dev/dri --mount type=tmpfs,destination=/tmp,tmpfs-size=20000000000 --no-healthcheck". This will still use your GPU to transcode but will instead offload that data to RAM instead of smashing your CPU and Cache resources. Happy homelab-ing! Edit: I should add that I have this tried and tested on linuxserver's repository but YMMV. "--device=/dev/dri" is only for CPU transcoding. Since a recent update, the container will fail to spin up if you use this with GPU transcoding, so just remove it to get "--runtime=nvidia --mount type=tmpfs,destination=/tmp,tmpfs-size=20000000000 --no-healthcheck". And of course, adjust "tmpfs-size=xxxxxxxxxxx" to be appropriate for for how many bytes of RAM you're able to allocate in your server or you might exceed your total RAM which may lead to containers/vm's etc. starting to crash.

Hmmm...did I ask too many questions for a single thread? @casperse @mgutt You guys posted a lot regarding my questions. I would greatly appreciate your opinion