Let me preface this by saying this is mostly theorycrafting at this point and I'm opening this thread because it was suggested during my support ticket (Great support BTW). I have a gaming computer that I want to try running as a hypervisor, I'm ordering a new Samsung evo 850 500gb and a 3tb spinning drive. I mostly am looking at using unraid because of the lovely VT-D front end it provides.

 

Specs:

I7 8700K

16 GB of Team Vulcan DDR4 -2400 ( I know it's slow and not much)

EVGA Classified K

Samsung 870 EVO 500 GB M.2

WD Blue 5400 2TB drive (It's been around a while)

Generic 750 Watt PSU

XFX RX 580 4GB

 

I will be likely utilizing the 500gb M.2, the 850 EVO and the 3tb, the 2tb is my backup and will be unplugged so as to avoid formatting accidents. I want to run this as a hypervisor primarily, I currently have a home lab running ESXI 6 on an old Dell PowerEdge which sadly doesn't support VT-D.

 

I realize this is likely not the right place for this but, I'm wondering if it would be possible to pull my existing drives without reformatting them they are all running on NTFS.  Also, does Unraid look at the partition tables so I could shrink a volume and reassign the unused space allowing me to format part of the drive?

 

 

Unraid must format any disk it will use as cache or in the array. You can read and write NTFS and other formats, including multi-partitions, using the Unassigned Devices plugin.