Hi everyone,
It's my first post here, i've been using unraid for about half a year now and enjoying it. When i built the server i used a generic unbranded usb drive and a SSD with bad sectors. Not the best idea but i wanted to test unraid, had these laying around and now i'm stuck with these. I'm also running 6 6TB WD reds (1 parity) which i will be replacing with 8 12TB drives (shucked WD white label) (2 parity drives). I'm also looking into encrypting my data, but i'm still on the fence, it's mainly movies, shows, music and console games.
What would be the best course of action? Replace the flash drive and SSD and gradually rebuild the hard drives?
Or replace all drives, remove the config, add the old drives as unassigned drives and copy everything from the old hard drives to the new drives or maybe chuck them into my computer and transfer over the network? This way if something goes wrong i can rebuild the old setup.
I could also add encryption, not sure on this as its just mostly media.
my current setup:
Supermicro X10SL7-F
Intel® Core™ i3-4330
32 GiB DDR3 Single-bit ECC
generic unbranded 16Gb flash drive
CacheCorsair Force 3 SSD 120Gb with bad sectors as cache drive
6 x 6TB WD red (1 parity)
future setup:
sandisk cruzer mini 16Gb
2 x Samsung 860 QVO 1TB as cache raid 1
8 x 12TB WD white label (precleared) (2 parity)
For now i'm using the server as a NAS, but in the future i will experiment with dockers and vm's.
regards,