March 31, 20188 yr Hi guys, Still in my trial period (8 days to go!) and was pretty happy with my setup until this morning. I've got a core i5 system hidden away in our TV cabinet that used to run synology (hacked) and a seperate HTPC. After looking at all the benefits of unraid, i decided to jump in and consolodate the two. So the box consists of: - z77 motherboard - i5 3550 cpu - 16gb ram I configured unraid to only use cores 0+1 while the windows VM is using cores 2+3 along with 4gb ram. The VM's main virtual disk is on the SSD cache, then i've got an unassigned USB3 drive formatted as EXT4 with a large virtual drive for MCE recordings. I chose to go this way as the recordings don't need to be protected and I didn't want any drives in the array spinning if they didn't need to be. The Windows VM also has an amd 6540 and two hauppauge 2200 tuners passed through. My wife noticed that the audio was playing up a little last week but stumbled upon the "MSI" fix for the audio which sorted it out. So up until this morning it's been perfect. HTPC has been off and the unraid box has been doing both unraid-ing and HTPC-ing without any probs. However this morning while downloading some stuff through a sabnzbd docker and watching TV through MCE, the video was stuttering just a little but audio kept cutting out. The two cores for unraid weren't going above 20% and the VM cores were hovering around 2-3% each. Just wondering where i should be looking? My guess is either: - the USB3 drive for the recordings virtual drive (as this is where media center actually plays the media from) as it's still on the "unraid side" - the pcie tuners being passed through (these both say they are MSI capable but neither have the + next to them in lspci. i've tried enabling it like i did for the HDMI audio controller but they never so the +) I'm on the verge of swapping back to synology before the trial runs out but if i can get past this i'll stick with it! Cheers edit: nevermind! switched back to synology. Edited April 7, 20188 yr by ideasman
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