VolkovBrad67

Just to add some precisions as to why the console cannot be sold in Quebec: Since 2009, it is required by law (Quebec's government, not federal), that the video games for the new consoles need to offer a french version if such french version exists (it might already be sold somewhere else in the world). They can, however, sell the english version of the game if no french version exists, as long as the packaging and the documents are also in french. The problem is, that the french version is usually made for french Europeans, and since we have different requirements (could be technical like NTSC VS PAL, or could be because of other regulations), then sometimes the vendor can't directly use that European french version in Quebec. As you might imagine, Nintendo is not going to make a Quebec's specific version of all their games for that console, so that's why they can't currently sell it in Quebec and they probably don't care enough to update the packaging / documentation either. One thing that is not clear to me is that the law explicitly states that it only applies to new generation consoles, and in this case I'm not sure if that classic SNES should be considered as such... So that might be a loophole they could exploit here and argue that this is not a new generation console and that it runs old games... I would not be surprised if the decision would be reversed in the near future.

I'm using an Arduino Uno r3 with the APA102 lights. I used the +5v (you can use +12v if the strips you use needs that) from a sata molex cable to directly power the LEDs and then wired the data cables (clock + data) to the arduino (ground has to be attached to the Arduino as well). Not sure how that would work with a 4 pins (1 +12v) though. Looking at @werto165 link, it seems you can drive 250+ leds with the Arduino, but I haven't tried that. I have 125 LEDs and power them directly. You can use FastLED to control the lights, I use it to update them in real time depending on the image on the screen.

Same here. Scrolling is buttery smooth and I don't notice any jelly effect (I would if it would look like in the video, but it doesn't do that at all). Not sure if this is an actual widespread issue, but oddly enough it seems that people on these forums who actually own one don't have that problem. On a slightly different topic, I wasn't expecting the fingerprint reader to be that good / quick, that phone is very impressive so far.

The #1 advantage of UnRaid vs other NAS solutions is that it doesn't require server-grade hardware, it's easy to swap hardware and more importantly, adding disks to the array is the simplest thing in the world. All you have to do is: stop the array power down the system plug in a new drive boot the server assign the new drive to the array from the available slots UnRaid will zero-out the drive in the background, you can still use the server normally when it's doing that, so the downtime is very minimal. You can use any type of drive you want, any size (as long as it's smaller or equal in size to the parity disk), any brand. You can choose if you want single parity drive or dual parity drive depending on your needs.

It's always a balance exercise of Data Protection vs Performance. You could install a single decent SSD (e.g. 850 EVO) 1TB in the cache pool and you would get decent performance. Although your mobo is SATA II so if you aren't using an HBA card then the bandwidth will be limited to 3Gb/s. If that's the case you should buy a cheaper SSD and that would probably be "good enough". The cache pool is close to native SSD performance if you aren't using more than 1 drive, especially if you pass it through the VM directly (although I don't think it's really necessary to do so in most cases anyway). You can use 2 drives in a RAID-0 equivalent mode for better performance at the increased risk of losing everything on the cache pool. Some people use that configuration and I think they have cron jobs to backup their stuff to the array once a day or something like that, which is an option. I use 2 drives in the cache pool in the default RAID1 config and it's still fairly quick (only takes a few seconds to boot the VM to Windows). I do tweak the Windows installation with all the possible tricks though (see SpaceInvaderOne / Gridrunner videos). In your case, I would recommend a single mainstream SSD with 512GB of space (or more if you are thinking of running tons of VMs or you are using the cache pool to transfer huge files during the day and absolutely need the performance), that would probably be good enough for your needs (something like the Crucial MX300), and wuld be simple to setup. Just make sure that when you enable the cache pool with your drive, that the vdisks for your VMs are actually moved to the SSD.

I've been using Proxmox and UnRaid for about 2 years, so I'll be following the thread, let me know if you have any questions. I haven't messed too much with Proxmox since I first configured it though, as I only use it for some headless servers (JIRA / PHP / GitLab). I do however use and keep up to the latest UnRaid news daily, it's a fantastic OS and pretty much changed the way I work / live.

They are most likely using ZFS since UnRaid does not officially support storage in the range of one Petabyte or more (although it could be done). And I don't think Linus minds the inconveniences of ZFS in terms of restrictions when upgrading since he could "simply" buy another identical server in the future if he wanted to expand the storage capacity.

I can't comment on Ryzen with UnRaid, too few people are using it. It makes things difficult with their bad IOMMU groups, but with a few tweaks you might be able to make it work like you want. If you need to pass through things like card readers or USB devices, I would suggest you buy a separate PCI-E card for that, otherwise you will likely have issues passing through those things, or/and you won't be able to plug / unplug / swap peripherals on the fly. I don't necessarily recommend buying the 1700X, you won't gain anything substantial over the 1700, but it's not a big deal.

No, it uses XFS by default for the main array. You can change it to ZFS if you need to but the operation is a bit involved. I use BTRFS for my Cache Pool, but again you can use a different file system if you want to.

Set your VM to use a single core, assign max 8GB of memory, set Hyper-V to "No", set machine type to the latest i440fx version, use OVMF, set VNC as the only graphical adapter. Install Windows 10. (you won't be able to install your nvidia drivers, that's fine). Reboot to make sure it reboots fine. Set your CPUs and Memory back to what you need, remove the VNC adapter and replace it with your nvidia card. Make sure you also pass through the NVidia Audio. Boot the VM. Success ?

Based on my personal experience with UnRaid and combining this with the testimonies of users running Ryzen with UnRaid, in terms of performance you get pretty much the same thing as a dedicated computer. You can pass through any hardware you need (GPUs, Disks, Network cards, USB cards) and get pretty much native performance. The big drawback is that even though UnRaid is probably the easiest platform to achieve this kind of setup, it's still never guaranteed that this works exactly as expected right out of the box. So you could be "lucky" and just pass through both GPUs, create a Win10 VM, install your drivers and play your game like you would on a regular desktop PC, or you may have to tinker with some settings first before you get it to work exactly as you want it to. If you are ready to spend some time learning how this works, then UnRaid is a phenomenal platform, but if you expect that everything will work just by clicking on a few buttons on the GUI, then you might be disappointed (although it might indeed work for you, right out of the box for your use case with your particular hardware). Personally I would not be able to go back to a different setup without UnRaid. I use it for everything, work, games, dockers for various scenarios (video streaming, etc.), I use VMs, I love the easy storage solution, etc...

I have no experience with this type of virtualization with AMD, but it works fine on X99, so seeing you already had that for your gaming machine I thought you could do exactly like I did and convert it to an UnRaid server / gaming combo. I think you can easily convert an existing OS installation to a VM that you can load in UnRaid, so you could then use your 2 SSDs as cache and put your VMs there (including your current OS setup). You would still have options for later, if you don't immediately buy a new Xeon server, you could run everything you need on your current X99 and if you need more later, THEN you could buy a new machine and maybe turn that new one into the UnRaid server, which would probably be more powerful for the same price at that time in the future.

When I was first shopping for parts for my UnRaid server, I was also looking at the Xeons, but the main that was worrying me was the low frequencies since I too wanted to game on it. The E5-2670 @ 3.3Ghz might not be too bad, but I don't know if you'll get the full performance of the GTX 1080. I would expect that for CPU heavy games such as GTA V, you'll get slightly reduced performance than a 5820K @ 3.6+Ghz but it might be "good enough". The virtualization itself doesn't impact my gaming performance in a significant way. The only thing related to that was the latency issue that I had when trying to play Rock Smith, but I solved it by passing through the whole USB adapter to the VM and also using CPU pinning, and assigning cores 0, 1, 2, 3 to the VM and 4-6 CPU pin (I have a 5820K, so basically I assign true 4 cores to the VM). For me, my current setup is good enough to run everything I need on my 5820K machine, so I ended up not purchasing any new parts. I do have a second server though, where I run headless things like GIT, JIRA, Guacamole, but I think if I would use dockers on the UnRaid server it wouldn't be too bad and wouldn't need that other server. Since I live somewhere where electricity is dirt cheap, I don't care about power consumption so I'm fine with my current dual servers setup. Can't you just use your current Unraid Server for gaming ? You already have everything you need to try it.

From the limited reports I've seen, the IOMMU groups on the Ryzen motherboards aren't looking good so far so it will probably be challenging to make this work properly. Having the GPU paired with something else isn't nice for GPU-pass-through...

You probably didn't specify your shares as you wanted to in terms of where it should store the data. If you set shares to Cache only, it will never move the files off the cache. If you really want to move everything off the cache, you can set all the Cache = No to all the shares and then invoke the mover. After that feel free to set whatever settings you want for the shares, it will apply for the future files that are written to disk.