Mex Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Hello, I just discovered the marvel that is unRaid, and this is my first post. Apologies in advance if this has been answered before, difficult to find among so many threads. I currently have unRaid running on a fairly recent Skylake machine (B150 + i3 6100) and I have it set up with a NVMe cache drive and six regular HDDs (one of those as parity). Being a bit of a geek I recently ordered a Supermicro X8DTL-i board with dual Xeon E5645 cpus. This board obviously doesn't support booting of a NVMe drive, but I was wondering if it would still show up in unRaid, and still be usable as a cache disk if I used a PCIe adapter to connect the drive to the motherboard. Furthermore, if it is detected by unRaid would it be possible to use it in a VM? Thanks for any clarification on this! Quote Link to comment
david279 Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 See if the nvme controller is in its own group in the system devices Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 2 hours ago, Mex said: This board obviously doesn't support booting of a NVMe drive, but I was wondering if it would still show up in unRaid, and still be usable as a cache disk if I used a PCIe adapter to connect the drive to the motherboard. Yes, and it can be used in a VM for example to to store a vdisk, but if you intend to pass it thought see above. Quote Link to comment
Mex Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 (edited) Awesome, thanks for the replies! Makes me a little bit more confident that the transfer of drives from the Skylake system will go as planned. Edited October 21, 2018 by Mex Typo Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.