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How to turn your Unraid server into a multi-streaming server for sites like Twitch, Mixer, Youtube, etc!

A blog about the security benefits of gaming in a virtual machine.

Linus Sebastian provides content to his audience (nearly 2 million youtube subscribers) in various forms: hardware reviews/unboxings, news analysis, build guides, and much more. After the release of Unraid 6, we reached out to Linus to see if he had any interest in demonstrating some of our capabilities in one of his shows.

A unique and powerful use-case for Unraid is in its ability to combine the capabilities of a powerful gaming rig with a storage server. In today's blog post, we wanted to cover this use-case and discuss the ever-so-important elephant in the room: what is performance like?

On July 29th, Microsoft released the newest version of their desktop OS, Windows 10. This new release brings the return of the start menu, support for multiple desktop screens, and DirectX 12, which promises massive performance improvements for gaming. There are plenty of other goodies baked into Windows 10, but the point of this post today isn't to educate you on Windows 10 itself, but rather, what's relevant to know about it with respect to use with Unraid.