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OK, had a little time to investigate. Old server won't post at all. I cleaned and reseated everything. Likely memory or CPU, and with the age of the system seems like a waste of resources and effort to continue troubleshooting and repairing, unless that is the only way to avoid data loss. It was a sempron 145 based system with 1GB memory, AOC SASLP-MV8 expansion card. The unused and available system seems to still work fine after testing tonight. It's an i5-6500 with 32GB memory, 6 onboard SATA ports I think, and a 512GB Samsung 950Pro M2 drive. Seems I read somewhere that AOC card I have isn't supported in newer unraid versions? Seems this would be a decent platform to migrate unraid to. But, how? Given the old system won't post, therefore I can't just copy data over, what is the best way to access data on the old drives and get that to a new unraid box? Is it possible to physically move drives, boot the new system with my old USB and old unraid version, and expect to actually be able to access data and upgrade? Or is this going to be a more difficult process?

Awesome, thank you. My searching skills have been failing me. I think first step is to troubleshoot the existing server to see what shape it's in. I can thn decide whether to try to update it, migrate data to an entirely new unraid install, or go with some other basic NAS device. Are new versions of unraid better visible in windows 10/11? That has me a bit gunshy about sinking more money into a new unraid server. It has been increasingly difficult and frustrating over the last couple of years to just keep the server visible to other PC's on the same hardwired network.

Thanks. I'll have some time this evening to try troubleshooting the old server. I've been looking for some sort of wiki or faq or guide that covers the process and options for migrating data to a new server in the case that is my only route. Haven't found it yet! I was thinking the drives are readable in the case the hardware fails and they need to be physically booted in another machine. Is that correct? If so would that be another unraid machine, windows environment, Linux?

<moved from general support... I think maybe this is the more appropriate forum section, didn't see a way to move so copied, sorry for the cross post> I'll try to be brief. I'm on old hardware with an old version of unraid (5.0 something I think, can't double check at the moment because I'm having difficulties accessing the server), built about 7-8 years ago around a lowish power AMD system. Never updated other than HDD expansion and maintenance as needed (not broken don't fix). Never even used a chache drive setup, my needs were just storage primarily, not performance so much. Have about 40TB space, maybe 30TB or so used. Over the last couple of years it has been increasingly difficult and frustrating to keep the unraid server visible to various Windows computers. Have had a little more reliability with visibility on streaming devices like fire stick. Now I suspect the hardware may be giving some issues as I can't even see server webpage. Need to troubleshoot. But it's likely time to do something different. I do have a lifetime unraid license, so more or less starting over with new hardware and migrating drives and/or data is an option. I have an unused ~5 year old core i5 system with M.2 drive if that would be a suitable starting point. I used an SATA expansion board in old system (whatever was popular at the time). Would have to see if this i5 mobo would give enough storage with modern drives. So, fix old system and keep chugging along on old unraid version? Use i5 to upgrade hardware to hopefully run newer unraid version? Would newer hardware even be needed? Are windows visibility issues still a plague even in new builds (I see the stickies, doesn't look encouraging?). Is there a better option for me, like prebuiot NAS or something? My storage desires were pretty extreme 8 years ago. Pretty modest in comparison these days so maybe more options like that are worth considering?

I'll try to be brief. I'm on old hardware with an old version of unraid (5.0 something I think, can't double check at the moment because I'm having difficulties accessing the server), built about 7-8 years ago around a lowish power AMD system. Never updated other than HDD expansion and maintenance as needed (not broken don't fix). Never even used a chache drive setup, my needs were just storage primarily, not performance so much. Have about 40TB space, maybe 30TB or so used. Over the last couple of years it has been increasingly difficult and frustrating to keep the unraid server visible to various Windows computers. Have had a little more reliability with visibility on streaming devices like fire stick. Now I suspect the hardware may be giving some issues as I can't even see server webpage. Need to troubleshoot. But it's likely time to do something different. I do have a lifetime unraid license, so more or less starting over with new hardware and migrating drives and/or data is an option. I have an unused ~5 year old core i5 system with M.2 drive if that would be a suitable starting point. I used an SATA expansion board in old system (whatever was popular at the time). Would have to see if this i5 mobo would give enough storage with modern drives. So, fix old system and keep chugging along on old unraid version? Use i5 to upgrade hardware to hopefully run newer unraid version? Would newer hardware even be needed? Are windows visibility issues still a plague even in new builds (I see the stickies, doesn't look encouraging?). Is there a better option for me, like prebuiot NAS or something? My storage desires were pretty extreme 8 years ago. Pretty modest in comparison these days so maybe more options like that are worth considering?