00b5 Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Videos help "sell" stuff, for sure. I'd at the very least make sure you have a youtube channel going, and that when you search the internets "in general" you get linked to them. Then they will find their way here. Also do some basic "setup" or "what could your old pc do as a nas" video/etc. I see you have most of that already, so keep up the good work. Again, these days I do think that if you can find a video of it on youtube, it goes a long way towards promoting your product. Is there a hardware video, maybe about hooking up drives, showing how flexible it is to get unRAID booted and shares created (maybe even showing how you can recycle hardware/etc)? Quote Link to comment
mr007 Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 I was using this method for awhile till i had problems with certain games.I ended up switching to a vhdx image running on my cache pool. Quote Link to comment
jonp Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 I was using this method for awhile till i had problems with certain games.I ended up switching to a vhdx image running on my cache pool. Can I ask if the games you had issues with were Steam or Origin (or others)? What kind of issues did you have specifically? Quote Link to comment
reluctantflux Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Guys, when Jon showed me this video, a lightbulb hit and I was floored with the performance. I set a User Share as using Cache (not no, or only). I then disabled the ehreceiver service in Windows, rebooted, renamed my Recorded TV folder, and setup a symbolic link to the User Share. I then copied the data from the old Recorded TV folder to the symbolic link (the user share). I re-enabled the ehreceiver service, rebooted, and now I have SSD cache for recording and watching live tv, and any recordings automatically get moved to my array at night for array protection. Live streams get deleted once the stream closes, so they never touch the array. This is a perfect solution for Windows Media Center. I believe this will only work in Windows 7, as Windows 8 will detect it's a symbolic link and prevent you from setting that as the Recorded TV location. I may have missed a step or two, but the end result is perfect and doesn't require any sort of archiving or moving of my recorded tv data now (other than the already automated mover of cached files). If you're using any media center to record tv, I highly recommend setting yours up this way. Quote Link to comment
ijuarez Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 This is an awesome video, i dont play games but i just watched it because it really shows how far unRaid has come. Quote Link to comment
jonp Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 Guys, when Jon showed me this video, a lightbulb hit and I was floored with the performance. I set a User Share as using Cache (not no, or only). I then disabled the ehreceiver service in Windows, rebooted, renamed my Recorded TV folder, and setup a symbolic link to the User Share. I then copied the data from the old Recorded TV folder to the symbolic link (the user share). I re-enabled the ehreceiver service, rebooted, and now I have SSD cache for recording and watching live tv, and any recordings automatically get moved to my array at night for array protection. Live streams get deleted once the stream closes, so they never touch the array. This is a perfect solution for Windows Media Center. I believe this will only work in Windows 7, as Windows 8 will detect it's a symbolic link and prevent you from setting that as the Recorded TV location. I may have missed a step or two, but the end result is perfect and doesn't require any sort of archiving or moving of my recorded tv data now (other than the already automated mover of cached files). If you're using any media center to record tv, I highly recommend setting yours up this way. Just tweeted a link to this specific reply. Thanks reluctant! Quote Link to comment
sparklyballs Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 i just watched a couple of videos on the youtube channel. call it os x once more i dare ya, lol. Quote Link to comment
jonp Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 i just watched a couple of videos on the youtube channel. call it os x once more i dare ya, lol. What you talking about sparkles? It is called OS X? Click the apple then about! It says OS X Yosemite on the macbook pro I'm lookin' at. Quote Link to comment
jonp Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 Also, per the request of multiple members in the forum here, I've added a "Videos" section to the website under Support. http://lime-technology.com/videos/ Quote Link to comment
sparklyballs Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 i just watched a couple of videos on the youtube channel. call it os x once more i dare ya, lol. What you talking about sparkles? It is called OS X? Click the apple then about! It says OS X Yosemite on the macbook pro I'm lookin' at. type say OS X into terminal window..... Quote Link to comment
jonp Posted June 23, 2015 Author Share Posted June 23, 2015 Lol. I always hear tech bloggers and whatnot refer to it as X instead of 10. Maybe that's the cool kid slang? Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Should we create a vid with OS X running in an unRAID VM? Or would that bunch-up someone's panties? Quote Link to comment
sparklyballs Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Should we create a vid with OS X running in an unRAID VM? Or would that bunch-up someone's panties? my panties are loose enough to not get bunched, lol. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 Should we create a vid with OS X running in an unRAID VM? Or would that bunch-up someone's panties? If you show you are running that particular unraid instance on genuine apple hardware it shouldn't cause any issues. http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macosx106.pdf Quote Link to comment
ijuarez Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Should we create a vid with OS X running in an unRAID VM? Or would that bunch-up someone's panties? I dont wear any, but please do, im dying to have a vm running on my unraid. Quote Link to comment
gshlomi Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Would it be possible pointing multiple VMs to the same games share? Currently sharing my Steam library with my son (using Steam's Family Sharing) on two different gaming PCs. Considering creating two VMs to replace the dedicated machines, so pointing both of the machines to the same user share wil dedup the games installations Quote Link to comment
SCSI Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 This is an awesome use of unraid. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Doing this now Quote Link to comment
jonp Posted June 27, 2015 Author Share Posted June 27, 2015 Would it be possible pointing multiple VMs to the same games share? Currently sharing my Steam library with my son (using Steam's Family Sharing) on two different gaming PCs. Considering creating two VMs to replace the dedicated machines, so pointing both of the machines to the same user share wil dedup the games installations Hmm, I haven't personally tried, but I don't see why not. And if it had an issue with two VMs sharing access like that, there is something we have in store for the future that would definitely solve for this...btrfs snapshots. Quote Link to comment
SCSI Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Would it be possible pointing multiple VMs to the same games share? Currently sharing my Steam library with my son (using Steam's Family Sharing) on two different gaming PCs. Considering creating two VMs to replace the dedicated machines, so pointing both of the machines to the same user share wil dedup the games installations Hmm, I haven't personally tried, but I don't see why not. And if it had an issue with two VMs sharing access like that, there is something we have in store for the future that would definitely solve for this...btrfs snapshots. The only issue that I can think of will be game saves. I think most are now saved in the Steam Cloud. Gamesave Manager is also another option to backup game saves. Another site as a reference to gamesave location: http://savelocations.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page Quote Link to comment
gshlomi Posted June 28, 2015 Share Posted June 28, 2015 Will there be any performance gain by spreading a game over multiple disks? Like RAID0 reading from multiple spinners at the same time ? Quote Link to comment
jonp Posted June 28, 2015 Author Share Posted June 28, 2015 Will there be any performance gain by spreading a game over multiple disks? Like RAID0 reading from multiple spinners at the same time ? I think what you are asking is if you store part of a game on disk 1 and another part in disk 2 in an array, will you get a boost. If my understanding of your question is accurate, then no, you will not get any gains With RAID-0 this only happens because the blocks of a file are spread across multiple disks, but with unRAID, each individual file that has to be loaded lives only on a single disk, so each file loaded will happen at the speed of the single disk. Quote Link to comment
bungee91 Posted June 29, 2015 Share Posted June 29, 2015 Guys, when Jon showed me this video, a lightbulb hit and I was floored with the performance. I set a User Share as using Cache (not no, or only). I then disabled the ehreceiver service in Windows, rebooted, renamed my Recorded TV folder, and setup a symbolic link to the User Share. I then copied the data from the old Recorded TV folder to the symbolic link (the user share). I re-enabled the ehreceiver service, rebooted, and now I have SSD cache for recording and watching live tv, and any recordings automatically get moved to my array at night for array protection. Live streams get deleted once the stream closes, so they never touch the array. This is a perfect solution for Windows Media Center. I believe this will only work in Windows 7, as Windows 8 will detect it's a symbolic link and prevent you from setting that as the Recorded TV location. I may have missed a step or two, but the end result is perfect and doesn't require any sort of archiving or moving of my recorded tv data now (other than the already automated mover of cached files). If you're using any media center to record tv, I highly recommend setting yours up this way. Jon had mentioned this solution to me for some other issues that I was having, however I never attempted it. That's awesome it works for you, however what has changed or what info do you have for it not working for Windows 8? I ask as I would attempt (running 8.1) however if it is known to not work, then I will leave what is working alone! Just tweeted a link to this specific reply. Thanks reluctant! That's where I seen this, and I never had used Twitter much up until now to talk to LT... Quote Link to comment
mostlydave Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 will this work if you move the games to a user share instead of a disk share? I'm setting up a Windows gaming VM on a SSD mounted outside of the array? I don't think I need to add the extra path to Steam since everything happening on the VM is on that SSD. I would like to be able to do the same kind of archiving but to a user share instead of a disk share. Quote Link to comment
rix Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 EDiT: See http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=44885.0 (Origin does not like my symlinks) Quote Link to comment
Kryspy Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 Have this setup. Games install to share. When I select a game it appears to start but just exits back to Steam screen. To me it appears to be a write permission issue. Directory belongs to ROOT?!? Any ideas? Kryspy Quote Link to comment
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