Add RAM MiB reference table and clarify raw drive passthrough

- Memory tab: 49152 MiB (48 GiB) with common GiB→MiB conversion table
- Drive passthrough: note that raw drives bypass Proxmox storage entirely

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -2202,7 +2202,23 @@ Click **Next**.
| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Memory (MiB) | 16384 |
| Memory (MiB) | 49152 |
Common MiB values for reference:
| GiB | MiB to enter |
|-----|-------------|
| 8 GiB | 8192 |
| 16 GiB | 16384 |
| 32 GiB | 32768 |
| 48 GiB | 49152 |
| 64 GiB | 65536 |
| 96 GiB | 98304 |
| 128 GiB | 131072 |
> 48 GiB (49152) is a good starting point for a desktop+NAS VM on a server
> with 128256 GiB total RAM. Adjust based on how much you want to reserve for
> the host and other VMs.
Click **Next**.
@@ -2337,6 +2353,11 @@ find it automatically.
### Step 11.6 — Add raw data drives to VM 100 via CLI
> **You do NOT add bare drives to Proxmox storage.** Proxmox storage (local-lvm,
> local, etc.) is only for VM disk images. Raw drives are passed directly to the
> VM as block devices — they bypass Proxmox storage entirely and appear inside
> the VM as `/dev/sdb`, `/dev/sdc`, etc. No storage pool setup required.
The web UI does not support raw block device passthrough cleanly — use the
Proxmox CLI. SSH into the host: