I've been running an Unraid server for about a decade now without any issues in Unraid, but I'm running into limits on my old hardware and want to modernize the setup.

 

I'm going to move any streaming media (music, movies, tv shows) to new, more capable hardware I'm slowly acquiring as components I want go on sale or otherwise drop prices. I'm going to keep all non-streaming files (backups, data hoarding, misc files) on the old hw.

 

I have 18 data disks, 1 parity and 1 cache drive currently running on 6.8.3.

 

What I want to do is move all disks with streaming media onto the new box I'm building, and leave the rest on the existing one. The split is probably 12 streaming media disks and 6 disks for the rest. I'm not quite sure what's the best way to move the disks to the new box and downsize the current box (remove 12 disks, and remove all music, movie and tv show shares).

 

I'm assuming I can unassign the drives, move them to the new box, remove music/movies/tv shows shares on the old box, do new config on it and recalculate parity. That would take care of the old box I believe. What about the new box? After getting Unraid running on it, what's the process of plugging the old disks on the new box and continue from where I left off? Just assign the data drives, create shares, assign cache and parity, recalc parity?

 

How about moving Plex and other Docker containers? Install Plex docker container on new box, stop Plex, copy appdata from old box to new, restart Plex?

 

I'm at about 95% capacity on my current array. Most disks are completely full with 3 of the newer 16TB ones with about 8TB of free space combined at the moment and I have no empty hard drive bays in my case if that makes any difference.

move any data around that you need to, to physically split the disks.  then just move them to a new box, and on both create new configs.

based on your listed usage, sounds like you could probably need a new disk or 2 to do so.

 

at least based on my understanding of things, that should do it.