July 21, 201114 yr I just wanted to post my experience with migrating an existing 6 drive unRAID system to new hardware. I was running an Asus A8N-SLI deluxe and for about 8-10 months all was running well. Recently I started having an issue where no matter how often I ran a parity check I couldn't get it to come up with 0 errors. After troubleshooting I determined it was the SATA ports on the mobo. Since I was faced with replacing hardware I figured I'd bite the bullet and get a Supermicro board since the mobo I had on hand (Asus P5BV-C) only has 4 ports. Replaced the mobo and installed the Supermicro AOC SAS card, plugged everything in and turned it on. Everything posted and I went into the Supermicro board and turned off INT13. Let it continue and everything came right up. Went into the unRAID admin and re-assigned the drives as they were before (took a screenshot) and now I have it re-building parity. Overall I'm super impressed at how easy it was to migrate to new hardware. Seamless. I also learned a good lesson over the past several months. Yes, unRAID can run just fine on old hardware you have lying around, but for God sakes, man, just bite the bullet and get yourself something off of the compatibility list
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