keepwalkn

A couple of people here mentioned not to use Storage Spaces Parity; yes you are correct if you use it without any SSD or NVMe cache, but if you do it works incredibly well. I have 6 x HGST 10TB drives in a Parity volume with 2 x 250GB Samsung 850 Pros mirrored for the cache. From the internal SATA M.2 to the new ReFS volume I was getting sustained transfer speeds of just under 400mb/s. Also, ReFS dedupe support in Server 2019 works a treat!

The cards are cheap enough that I'd try it. I know I can run things in Windows and Ubuntu seemed to work fine without too much hassle.

Yep, same dude! He'd sold about 60-odd when I grabbed one. Looks like I've had a win switching to Ubuntu 18.04 and using nvidia-prime as suggested in here. Installed Steam and from the below output it looks like it's working!

I bought one of these cards off Ebay in Australia (the guy is selling them for $100 AUD and no mucking about with Taobao) as I decided to use it for an emulation PC - works a treat in Windows and had no real issues. Don't care that the driver isn't signed either! Then I decided to give it a crack with SteamOS to see if I could have a nicer interface whilst still making use of the P106 for 3D acceleration. Haven't had a vast amount of success so far (Bumblebee keeps saying it can't access the secondary GPU), but more than happy to work with someone who's keen to get this running on Linux if anyone wants to give this a crack. One other thing I read somewhere was that apparently if you buy one of those weird ass mobile processors that Linus covered in an older video then the system sees this all as a standard mobile/Optimus set up so that's something I could be tempted to try too.