January 20, 20179 yr Your CPU doesn't support vt-d, so no, you can't pass through your video card and have local VM's with your current hardware.
January 21, 20179 yr Its a shame really, if you had the non K version of your CPU you would have VT-D support and be able to do a windows virtual machine for gaming too.
January 21, 20179 yr Are you planning on setting up unRAID as a NAS, or are you just looking to use it as a hypervisor? I ask because you mentioned a parity drive but didn't mention your plans for data drives.
January 21, 20179 yr What CPU would have VT-D support, and also be fairly equal/better than the one i currently have? The 4770, 4771, 4790 and 4790k would be fairly equal/better than what you have and all support VT-D.
January 21, 20179 yr Are you planning on setting up unRAID as a NAS, or are you just looking to use it as a hypervisor? I ask because you mentioned a parity drive but didn't mention your plans for data drives. I want it all to run from my PC with the SPECS listed above. So yeah, like a hypervisor.. Well to be clear, then - the only thing a parity drive protects are data drives and data drives aren't an appropriate place for VMs. So I'm not sure if you were planning to run all the VMs off cache or maybe use the 2TB unit via unAssigned Devices?
January 22, 20179 yr I want to run all the Vm's on the two ssd's, while storing other data on the 2TB drive. Then using the 3TB drive to backup everything. If that makes sense? Parity is not a backup, but if you only have a single data disk it is a mirror just because of the way parity works.
January 22, 20179 yr I want to run all the Vm's on the two ssd's, while storing other data on the 2TB drive. Then using the 3TB drive to backup everything. If that makes sense? unRAID has two subsystems for data storage, the storage array and the cache pool (well three if you count Unassigned Devices). The storage array is for high volume, less frequently accessed data. The cache pool is for low latency fast access. The parity drive provides redundancy for the storage array using unRAID's proprietary software based RAID. It does not provide redundancy for the cache pool. The cache pool does support redundancy, though - it's the BTRFS implementation of more traditional RAID levels. So bottom line - in your proposed implementation your data disk would be protected by the parity drive and your VM storage would be unprotected since you plan to run RAID 0. You can protect your cache pool by running RAID 1 (or higher) instead but you'd either loose space or have to add drives. And like trurl said - parity isn't a backup.
January 22, 20179 yr The 4770, 4771, 4790 and 4790k would be fairly equal/better than what you have and all support VT-D. Do they support my current motherboard socket? Just to make sure.. If not, then i guess its time for a big upgrade . Yes, they all would fit your motherboard socket.
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