Coming from freenas and have 2 questions.

 

If I have 3x 2TB Hard drives and 1x 1TB hard drive can I use 2x 2TB hard drives and 1x 1TB hard drive with the extra 2TB HD as parity?

No space lost on the 3 usable hard drives?

 

2nd question

if I install OpenElec and SteamOS as VM's how do I switch between the 2?

Coming from freenas and have 2 questions.

 

If I have 3x 2TB Hard drives and 1x 1TB hard drive can I use 2x 2TB hard drives and 1x 1TB hard drive with the extra 2TB HD as parity?

No space lost on the 3 usable hard drives?

correct

Sold!

 

Any chance you can answer my 2nd question?

Sold!

 

Any chance you can answer my 2nd question?

No sorry, I am not using any VMs so I don't know

You would use VNC to connect to them from the VM manager in the UnRaid gui I believe.

Sold!

 

Any chance you can answer my 2nd question?

there is not really enough information to answer this question.  We would need to know what hardware you have and whether you are trying to do things like pass through GPUs to the VM or are going to run with virtualised screen access across the network via VNC or RDP or something similar. 

 

Note that hardware pass through to a VM requires you to have VT-d support in all of the CPU, Motherboard and BIOS.  One way to check this is to boot up unRAID and press the button for system information and see if says that IOMMU is "Enabled".

Coming from freenas and have 2 questions.

 

If I have 3x 2TB Hard drives and 1x 1TB hard drive can I use 2x 2TB hard drives and 1x 1TB hard drive with the extra 2TB HD as parity?

No space lost on the 3 usable hard drives?

 

2nd question

if I install OpenElec and SteamOS as VM's how do I switch between the 2?

 

If you are planning on using the same GPU for both VMs you will have to shut one down, then boot the other one up from the web GUI. If you have the resources to run them both, two GPUs, enough RAM and CPU for both to run at the same time then you just run two HDMI cables out to your display(s).