I have had a search of the forum and can see people have asked similar question but just wanted to make sure I was clear as the drives I want to move have all the stuff I don't want to lose on them (photos etc...)

My original microserver has 4 NAS drives in it that i have shares for photos and important stuff

 

My other tower has cheaper white label drives with general media on them

 

I understand I have the use the 'new config' in tools when I add the drives together but will it automatically add the shares from the old system to the one?

 

after that will i be able to assign the shares for photos etc to only use the NAS drives and keep the media on the white label ones?

 

Thanks

 

Edited July 17, 20214 yr by chonnymon

The shares will transfer with the drives, albeit without any customizations like user permissions and such. User shares are simply the root folders on all array data drives and cache pools.

 

Just make sure you don't assign any drive with data you want to a parity slot. To be safe, I'd only assign data slots with the new config, and leave the parity slots empty for the first array start. You can add the parity drives later without doing another new config.

Thank you, this answers my question perfectly, I'll make sure I do that with the parity drive as well, just incase