August 5, 201510 yr Hello - and apologies if my first post should have gone in the Virtual Machines - KVM forum. I'm just trying to do as much planning as practical before installing unRAID. I've got an existing Windows 10 PC used for gaming, archiving Blu Ray to MKV, and web browsing. The Full-ATX tower begging to be taken advantage of. I can't really justify another tower, motherboard, power supply, etc. for unRAID, so I'm hoping I can get virtualization & GPU pass-through working: i5-4670 listed as supporting VT-d MSI Z87M-G43 - VT and VT-d enabled according to BIOS. It was buried under Overclocking - CPU Features. unknown. Other MSI Z87 boards have been confirmed. Any way to check? NVIDIA 770GTX-4GB 16GB RAM, SSD, Blu Ray, USB devices, etc... Rather than use the SSD as cache and place the VM there, I ordered a 2 port SATA card (SYBA SY-PEX40039, PCIe x1). I plan to connect the Blu Ray drive & SSD to the card, then pass the card & GPU to the VM, leaving the motherboard SATA controller (6 ports) for unRAID. Is this likely to work? *EDIT* I realize I left out storage entirely. It wasn't relevant to the questions above. I'm limited with this motherboard in terms of expandability - the graphics card occupies the top x16 slot, blocks access to the upper x1 slot, and the bottom x16 slot is limited to x4 (making me question whether an 8-port SATA card with the x8 interface would work). The only remaining x1 port will be the SYBA listed above. The most attractive part about unRAID to me is that I can start with 2 drives, expanded one drive at a time, and change the motherboard later (if needed or failure/upgrade) without losing my array.
August 6, 201510 yr Author Updated OP - the motherboard supports VT-d according to the BIOS. Hopefully next week I'll get to give unRAID a try.
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