manuelnoriega

That's odd that you're the first person to report big issues with GPU passthrough on a small scale. Looks like you're right about unraid. My real goal was to have something like a RAID10 with the 4 drives, or in the case of UNraid's XFS which I'm not familiar with, have two parity drives. Currently I'm just putzing around with JBOD and a nightly backup from one drive to another (obviously keeping an up-to-the-minute backup isn't that important to me). Unfortunately it doesn't look like unraid can do dual parity, and since I've had a ton of these 6TB monsters fail on me I think using the onboard RAID is the way to go. So since my client usage is low, gaming usage is erratic, and I barely use this stuff for work anymore... yeah I'll probably just chicken out on Unraid as it's more trouble than it's worth. I wish I'd gone with an i5. what am I going to do with all this RAM? whatever. I did read somewhere that shutting down the VMware with the GPU passthrough will save some watts but maybe I'll just put it to sleep and use wake-on-LAN. As far as SMB, It's been pretty solid for me for about 2 years now, even backing up mac laptops to "time machine" sparseimages hosted on the PC. The only problem is my cheapo external USB backplane disconnects once a week. Also: I disagree on the win10 boot 60GB is more than enough for a windows 10 boot drive if you're storing your games, media, etc on a separate drive. My daily driver is a laptop with a m.2 boot/user and a 1tb sata SSD, the boot drive is probably at 30gb full, if that. And finally, how do you know so much about all things ? Ladies too? I'm blown away.

I saw linus' video on using unraid to make a NAS/gaming hybrid. Looks cool. I've never messed with unraid before but I'm excited to do so. I'm building an i7 7700k NAS + gaming rig/HTPC with a GTX 1080, 32gb RAM, H90, 120gb PCIe4x m.2, four 6tb platter drives. All in a node 304 from fractal. Yes it'll fit. I'm planning to use an ASROCK z270m ITX/ac as well. I plan to use butter FS or whatever the default unraid dealie is for four platter drives plus a 120gb NVME. I was thinking 60GB windows 10, 60gb cache for UNRAID (yes I know there is a data-loss risk). I mostly play games that aren't super CPU bound, no city skylines et al. I'm running up to 3 clients on the NAS (including storing the games on the UNRAID NAS), just streaming media through SMB. If I run plex, it'll be on the windows side. I have some questions, 1&2 are the big ones: 1. will Netflix 4k BS arbitrary requirements work if only 2-3 physical cores dedicated to windows 10 via UNRAID? 2. What's the best way to setup the processor allocation? Will 3 HT physical cores (6 logical) do fine for gaming? Will 1 HT core (2 logical) serve files appropriately? Should I divide it up half and half? This video was very encouraging for a half/half approach (But my mobo wont OC much, so I might be stuck at 4.5ghz). 3. Apart from the obvious data loss risk from lack of redundancy (once again, don't care), are there any issues with using the same NVMe to cache and run windows? Will that screw with the processor allocation because of the PCIE controller config? 4. If I don't run a cache (or buy two SATA ssds to do this), will the m.2 work better if I just do a PCIe pass-through to the windows VM? If this isn't going to work right, I'll just run the NAS using windows 10 pro (sigh) , but I think Unraid would be really cool and make me more attractive to the opposite sex.

I realize this thread is old, but kaby lake isn't much different than skylake so what the hell. I'm building an i7 7700k NAS + gaming rig/HTPC with a GTX 1080, 32gb RAM I'm planning to use an ASROCK z270m ITX/ac as well. I plan to use butter FS or whatever the default unraid dealie is for four platter drives plus a 120gb NVME. I was thinking 60GB windows 10, 60gb cache for UNRAID (yes I know there is a data-loss risk). I mostly play games that aren't super CPU bound, no city skylines et al. I'm running up to 3 clients (including storing the games on the UNRAID NAS), just streaming media through SMB. If I run plex, it'll be on the windows side. I have some questions: 1. will Netflix 4k BS arbitrary requirements work if only 2-3 physical cores dedicated to windows 10 via UNRAID? 2. What's the best way to setup the processor allocation? Will 3 HT physical cores (6 logical) do fine for gaming? Will 1 HT core (2 logical) serve files appropriately? Should I divide it up half and half? This video was very encouraging for a half/half approach (But my mobo wont OC so it's not the same). 3. Apart from the obvious data loss risk from lack of redundancy (once again, don't care), are there any issues with using the same NVMe to cache and run windows? Will that screw with the processor allocation because of the PCIE controller config? 4. If I don't run a cache, will the m.2 work better if I just do a PCIe pass-through to the windows VM?

I saw that video, That was epically sad. I thought he was just going to be like "LOL I bought this for other stuff but look how awful it games" instead he was like "Man this is what I actually use to game, I guess I just don't get to play certain titles. Bummer!" The radeon 460 he has maxes out at 1.86 tflops, by the way. The radeon 7970 from 2011 has > 3 Tflop, by comparison, GTX 1080 has 9Tflop.

I found it very informative. I would've never even considered changing my RAM configuration in my laptop to save battery life. Now I know about LPDDR is more about use during non-stress tasks (though I still wonder how much life it really saves with normal use and not just in sleep mode)

Good point, the GPU goes from 1.3 - 1.8 tflop (GTX 1080 is 9 tflop. Radeon 7970-- 5 years old now, is 3 tflop) Yeah, I've been at the Macrumors forums trolling about what kind of computer I can get from alienware for $2500 (hint: 4k touch screen and 980M? m.2 slot and 2.5" ssd? yes please). Thing is the zealots don't even defend it anymore. "Yeah it's slower, but it runs final cut!" This guy has a >$10,000, six core xeon mac pro with dual D700 (280x radeon) running a NAS while he farts around with his Macbook 10 feet away:

It's a lot easier for economies of scale to make one model instead of many SKU's.

"hey dude, you mean combinations not permutations, both refer to mathematical concepts, I see you haven't seen this stuff since high school, easy mistake to make" Or "You're a pretentious moronic twat and I know one thing you don't!"

http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro I put that together myself. This is OC. Source, quote and opinion in one?

Source: Original content, from http://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro *combinations, not permutations, thanks for being such a nice person about it!