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Hi, I have not been here for a while....6 years 😁,....but I am now looking into building a big file server for larger video files. During the pandemic we have built a video studio in our company and I need a place to store our productions. As I still have an older unraid setup in the garage, I was thinking, maybe I could ressurect it with new HDDs and SSD cache. Here is the old setup: Supermicro MB775 I-3210 X7SBE 2x Supermicro Cont SATA2 AOC-SAT2-MV8 PCI-X Intel Core 2 Duo E5200 4gb ddr2 800 Corsair TX750W Norco 4020 Would it be worth using the old hardware or at least the case? As the data I produce in a shooting day is in the range between 50GB and 2TB, is unraid quick enough for me, if I want to overnight backup? Thanks in advance for your insights! Dominik

Thanks, I will try it now. There is a lot to do

thanks, seems reasonable to change the filesystem. I will reread this thread.

is it worth it to change the file system?

Hi, I recently revived a very old version (4.something) of my unraid to the new age (6.1.6). My server has numerous old hdds, with 500GB each and reisrfs. Now I have some 3TB drives, that I would like use instead. If I understood correctly, just exchanging one drive at a time would bring me reiserfs 3TB drives(after rebuild). If I expand my system with a new 3TB xfs drive, I need to copy the data. What happens with the user shares? e.g disk 1 is 500GB and has partial files of 4 user shares If I copy all that to a new 3TB drive, then stop the array, take out the old 500GB, restart the array. Would I need to rebuild parity for everything? Would the user shares be intact? Thanks a lot for your help! Dominik