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http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1272 is where I pulled the oem.tgz for the NIC card, the board is an ASUS M4A78L-M. Physically looks the same as the board you're using, has the same NIC chipset in it. That oem.tgz should allow you to get a secondary NIC online.

Awesome. The Asus M4A785T-M and this Intel PCI network card looks like a good AMD based candidate. You can get these Intel nic's for less on ebay almost any day of the week. It's also a good board in case it gets repurposed. There's also a custom oem.tgz available that will get the onboard NIC working. Right now I have the Intel NIC in the current unRAID box while I work in getting my new drives in so in testing I've had to use the onboard. Works just fine. (Although I have a slightly different model from ASUS that has the same Chipset)

That's kinda what I'm aiming for in general. My dev box died and I've replaced it with a quad core that's completely overpowered for what I was doing. Collapsing the unRAID system into it would also allow me to get rid of excess traffic on my network as I can migrate my torrent client into a VM on the same system. When you do your testing are you planning on modifying the VM Memory size to see if there's a "sweet spot" for caching? I've got 4gb on the system now, it will hold up to 16 and I wouldn't object to performing RAM upgrades down the road if there is benefit to be gained from something larger than 1 or 2gb. And of course the big question I run into is: I'm thinking about scrapping the whole system and drive array that my unRAID server is running on (2x 1.5 TB, a 1 TB, 2x .75TB and a .5TB) and grabbing a pack of new 2TB drives to build on. Problem is, I only have the one license for unRAID. If I make a new VM with a new disk pack, how do I get the data over given that there is only "one server"...