Hi All,
Fairly new to Unraid. I've been running it for about 2 years. I had to change my motherboard on my Unraid server. The new motherboard I'm trying to use only has 4 SATA ports instead of 5 on the old motherboard. So, I'm unable to use one of my drives that was in the nas. On the old motherboard I had a 500gb cache drive plugged into SATA port 1, a 10TB (parity drive) in SATA 0, a 2TB in SATA 2, and 2 4TB drives in SATA 4 & 5. As I said, since the new motherboard only has 4 SATA, I will use the 500gb cache in SATA 1, the 10TB (parity drive) in SATA 0 and I will use the two 4 TB drives plugged into SATA 2 & 3. I will eliminate the 2TB drive. I redid my flash drive with a backup I made from the old NAS using the same usb drive I was using to boot in the old motherboard. This USB drive has my license that I purchased. I booted from this with the new motherboard into unraid with gui but it is telling me that I can't connect to the internet with a trial version, so unable to start my array. I'm not sure why it is saying I have a trial version. My first question is, with a change in drive setup (quantity of drives and drives plugged into different SATA ports), will my NAS work (all my data be the same) with the current configuration? Will it be able to adjust to the new setup while still being to access my data? 2nd question, is with the internet error. Is that because of the different set up or another issue. Reluctantly, if I have to, I can rebuild the entire thing from scratch, like it was new with the current configuration, but I would like to prevent that and lose data. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!
Sorry if this confusing sounding.