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I have been an happy Unraid user for a few years, but I have an embarrassing question. I run Windows 10 as my my primary VM. When I map a drive to one of my shares on the array, is the data coming across the network? For example if I copy a file from the array to my Windows 10 desktop, is that coming from the array, through the router, back to my Unraid server, and finally to my VM? If so, is there a way to bridge it so that the data being transferred does not have to go through the network?

 

Last question. If I want to hookup an external USB drive, is it more efficient to mount it in Unraid as an Unassigned Device - thus making it available to my VM via a share, or pass the USB drive directly to the VM like I would do a keyboard and mouse?

 

Hides head in embarrassment.

 

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