December 6, 20232 yr I'm passing through an SSD from Unassigned Devices to my VM using the by-id technique using the ID starting with "ata-". Should I use SATA or VirtIO for this? I have the virtio drivers installed in Windows and I've been using VirtIO until now, but I'm not sure if that is correct or not. Does it matter? When I use VirtIO drivers, it shows up as an HDD in task manager, and as a "thin provisioned device" under the optimization window. If I use SATA it shows as an HDD in both places. I find lots of info about this for vdisks but I haven't been able to find a straight answer on this for passthrough disks. Thank you!
December 7, 20232 yr Author Well my question may be answered...I switched to SATA to see if there was any performance difference and now I can't switch back to VirtIO. I'm not sure how I had it working before, but I definitely had virtio selected and it was definitely working...but now it doesn't recognize my SSD. I have the virtio driver installed on Windows too, because like I said, it worked before... Oh well, guess SATA is my answer...
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