Hi guys, been snooping around quite a bit trying to get the answer to my question with no luck so though I would register and ask myself and hopefully get some insight.

 

A little bit of how I got here first, I was looking around on youtube and came across the linus 2 gamers 1 pc thing using unraid, at the time my wife and I are saving to buy her a new laptop/pc so she can game better (her current laptop is on the brink of death).  I thought this idea was perfect for us as I have a current PC which is quite beasty (I7 4790k, 32GB Ram, GTX 980, 240gb ssd and 2tb hdd) and with the funds we currently have saved we could get her a monitor, kb, mouse, her own dedicated GPU and other essentials.  However we will fall short and getting an extra ssd and hdd.

 

So is it possible to setup unraid as linus has done in his video, but with only the storage I have or should I wait until I can get more storage. I was thinking of using about 80gb each of the ssd just for the os's and about 750 - 800 gb each for storage (this would be plenty for what we need) and this would purely be for gaming.  I understand how to set it all up after watching the video a few times but get a bit confused with the storage part and how I would get it to work with just the drives I have.

 

Thanks in advance for any help and itching to get started with this.

Hi guys, been snooping around quite a bit trying to get the answer to my question with no luck so though I would register and ask myself and hopefully get some insight.

 

A little bit of how I got here first, I was looking around on youtube and came across the linus 2 gamers 1 pc thing using unraid, at the time my wife and I are saving to buy her a new laptop/pc so she can game better (her current laptop is on the brink of death).  I thought this idea was perfect for us as I have a current PC which is quite beasty (I7 4790k, 32GB Ram, GTX 980, 240gb ssd and 2tb hdd) and with the funds we currently have saved we could get her a monitor, kb, mouse, her own dedicated GPU and other essentials.  However we will fall short and getting an extra ssd and hdd.

 

So is it possible to setup unraid as linus has done in his video, but with only the storage I have or should I wait until I can get more storage. I was thinking of using about 80gb each of the ssd just for the os's and about 750 - 800 gb each for storage (this would be plenty for what we need) and this would purely be for gaming.  I understand how to set it all up after watching the video a few times but get a bit confused with the storage part and how I would get it to work with just the drives I have.

 

Thanks in advance for any help and itching to get started with this.

 

Im not expert and this is just my opinion. The ssd can do what you want it to having both vms on. The hdd on the other hand doesn't have the proformance of an ssd possibly run into issues with it. Onto the cpu. 4790k awesome cpu! One thing I see might be another issue is core splitting between two vms an unraid. 1-2 for unraid 2-4 for vms. You have 8 logical cores. And I think he used a 12 logical core cpu?