November 1, 20187 yr Hey everyone! Although I am sure this question has already been asked and answered, I haven't had the time to dig through these forums. All of my parts for my server will arrive tomorrow and I plan on assembling it all that night. My question was regarding the device limit on the basic version of the unraid OS. My System will include the following 1 - 6 TB Parity Drive 1 - 6 TB HDD in the Pool 1 - SSD Cache Drive 1 - SSD unassigned device for VM / Plex Metadata storage 1 - CD/DVD Drive and the bootable flash drive I read that the flash drive does not count toward the device number, which is awesome. But I was just wondering if the CD/DVD Drive and the unassinged device drive counts in that limit? I am assuming that they do, which is whatever. I won't be expanding really any time soon, but I would have 1 open device anyway with the current configuration. So, would I end up with 5/6, 4/6, or 3/6? I appreciate anyone that stops by and answers my question!
November 1, 20187 yr 7 minutes ago, thagen8 said: But I was just wondering if the CD/DVD Drive and the unassinged device drive counts in that limit? Yes
November 1, 20187 yr 25 minutes ago, limetech said: Not intended for that being the case. Really? Hasn't it been like that forever?
November 1, 20187 yr 16 minutes ago, Squid said: Really? Hasn't it been like that forever? Guess so. I think if there is no media in the drive it won't count at array Start. No one has really bugged us about it...
November 3, 20187 yr Author So this brings me to another question. I just put a CD in the Optical Drive and it didn't even show up in my unraid "main" tab. Is there any way that I could access the Optical Drive from my main Windows 10 machine on my network?
November 3, 20187 yr Author 3 minutes ago, thagen8 said: So this brings me to another question. I just put a CD in the Optical Drive and it didn't even show up in my unraid "main" tab. Is there any way that I could access the Optical Drive from my main Windows 10 machine on my network? Adding to this. Would this be a viable solution. Create a windows VM and pass the Optical Drive through to it. Then all the drive to be shareable via various Windows settings. Finally connect to the drive but using the VM? I don't even know if this is possible, but it would be nice to find out.
November 5, 20187 yr Author Never mind. I figured it out. I had to create a Windows VM then modify the XML of the VM to pass the optical drive through. I am now just using a Windows 10 VM for Optical Drive access. Which is fine
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