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Thank you very much! Yeah I am not going for raid controller. I will be moving my HBA controller with the disks and using SATA onboard as I am now.

Given what is said above does this extend to system replacement in its entirety except the disks? What I am trying at here is this: If I take my drives and plug them into a new system (all hardware replaced except drives) and plug my USB Unraid into the new system will it just work or do I need to do something or will it tank the data? The reason I ask is because I got 8 drives with data in an array with 1 extra as parity drive in Unraid ATM and I have no place to offload the data so need to keep it intact - but it is all on a PC that is vastly overpowered for the task (was bought for FreeNAS) so I am thinking about taking the drives and transplanting them into a minimalistic hardware setup since that releases my current hardware for other use and dramatically lowers power bill. I only use it for media storage so no real dockers and plugins or any VM's only Openvpn really. Cheers

Superb! 1 headache averted! thank you again both of you!

Thank you both for the swift and excellent replies! But mine was shipped with BIOS on them? how would I remove their BIOS and what would be the point to have BIOS or not if you do not mind me asking?

Hi people, Sorry if my request is dense but I have flashed all kinds of devices before but seem to come up short on how to do it to the LSI 9207-8i Controller. It is running the latest Firmware: 20.00.07.00 in IT mode. The BIOS however is a bit outdated so I wanted to upgrade to: 7.27.01.01 since my version is from 2015 and since I am new to all of this I did not want to worry about it after installing Unraid. I managed to download the latest BIOS from their website here: https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9207-8i I used Rufus to make bootable USB I unzipped the root contents of the BIOS download on to said USB It boots fine into said USB This is where I get lost. I need to know exactly what command to type to flash the controller and I read the readme and I understand that I am surely dense but help a fellow out please? I have only one controller plugged in but as I said I have no idea what exact syntax I need to make magic happen. Remember I am new to all of this! Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you

Anyone? Any conflicts or considerations?

Hi all, I just wanted to know if my components brings any alarms or compatibility issues or any other input any might have? all comments are welcome! This would be my first Unraid build and would be replacing the Synology DS1817+ I got now. I like the idea of parity but with full disk writes and not spread on many as well as easier expandability. I have been following Tybio's build over at: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/74583-thinking-about-the-e-2186g/page/5/ My thinking is the board should run all on-board sata fro the disks 1 NVMe for cache drive and one express used as 10GB card? So far my idea is: 1 x Intel Xeon E-2278G CPU Intel Xeon 2278G 1 x Noctua NH-U12A CPU Cooler Noctua NH-U12A CPU Cooler 1 x ASUS WS C246M PRO Motherboard (a little unsure on this one?) ASUS WS-C246M-PRO Motherboard 2 x Samsung DDR4-2666 CL19 ECC SC - 16GB RAM (for 32 GB on 2 sticks) 2 X Samsung M391A2K43BB1-CTD 16GB Ram Module ECC 1 x Samsung 970 PRO SSD M.2 2280 - 1TB (for cache drive?) Samsung 970 PRO 1TB SSD NVMe Cache Drive 8 x WD Gold DC HA750 Enterprise Class SATA HDD - 14 TB - 3.5" - 7200 rpm - SATA-600 - 512 MB cache 8 X WD Gold DC HA750 1 x Fractal Design Define R6 Case with extra caddies for 11 slots of 3.5" drives (gives me a bit of future expandability?) Fractal R6 Case While overkill I got a spare ASUS ROG Thor 850P power supply I can use, I might change this though. Any thoughts or comments ? Cheers!