March 26, 20224 yr I have an unRaid system running on a Asus P8Z77-V LK with an Intel Core i5-3570 CPU and 32GB RAM with 1TB SSD drive for cache. It's been running fine since 2014 with 4 data disks and 2 parity drives. I am running version 6.8.3 because it has been so solidly reliable and version 6.9.2 would crash with my configuration. Since my hardware is getting long in the tooth, and it could definitely benefit from better CPU performance, I've been considering an upgrade to a newer CPU and motherboard. But it scares me to do so with unRaid since I've never done it before and I have a very large array size (around 48TB). My questions are: 1. What do I need to do to prepare for a transition to a new system? I.e. will the current flash drive containing the unRaid server software need to be changed? Anything I need to do when reconnecting the array drives? 2. Should a new CPU and motherboard eliminate the problems with going to version 6.9.2 or is there a CPU/Motherboard combination I should steer clear of? Thank you for any good advice you could provide. Dale
March 26, 20224 yr 2 minutes ago, dchamb said: What do I need to do to prepare for a transition to a new system? Pretty much nothing. Never hurts to make a backup of the flash first though 2 minutes ago, dchamb said: will the current flash drive containing the unRaid server software need to be changed? no 2 minutes ago, dchamb said: 2. Should a new CPU and motherboard eliminate the problems with going to version 6.9.2 or is there a CPU/Motherboard combination I should steer clear of? What problems do you have?
March 26, 20224 yr Author 1 hour ago, Squid said: Pretty much nothing. Never hurts to make a backup of the flash first though no What problems do you have? When I tried to move from 6.8.3 to 6.9.2 the server would lock up with no system log. Just could not get it to run more than a few hours before the webgui would freeze and I could not do a clean shutdown. Rolling back to 6.8.3 solved the problem. Several others experienced the same problem. If I understood the problem it had to do with the kernel having compatibility issues with the chipset in the system.
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