Exil Risedo

Thanks, I like your perspective. Sometime one can't see the forest for all the trees.

I built an Unraid system back in March 2011 (Unraid 4.7) using 2 SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 controller cards with thirteen 2 TB (3Gbps) drives (single parity drive) - even though that controller card uses a Marvel SATA controller chip, I have had no major issues. However, the system (now running Unraid 6.11.1) is aging rather fast it seems -- some of the drives are 10 years old and starting to have read errors. My research tells me that I should be able to replace the two SuperMicro cards with two LSI 6Gbps SAS HBA 9200-8I IT Mode 8 port cards, but I am wondering if there are any other gotchas that I need to be aware of? Especially since my base system components are ancient. My intent is to slowly migrate out all the old 2TB/3Gbps drives for larger capacity modern 6Gbps drives (Seagate Exos is the plan). Plus the fact that I chose ReiserFS back in 2011 and I would like to move to XFS or some file system that is supported by the Linux kernel goring forward. Anyway just wondering how bumpy the road ahead might be. Thanks for your time reading all of this... Base System Components circa 2011: Intel DP55WG Motherboard w/ 6 SATA 3Gbps ports, 8 GB RAM Intel i5-760 Quad Core 2.8GHz LGA1156 95W CPU Lexmark JD-Firefly 8GB USB Boot Flash Intel 250GB SSD Cache drive 2 x SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 4xPCIe Controller Cards 4 x iStarUSA 5-in-3 SATA Trays PC Power & Cooling Silencer MkII 950W PSU

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