Hardware failure - upgrade

[michael123]

Hi

 

is it quite straight forward to recover from simple disk failures and perform upgrades with unraid, and wiki exists.

 

My question is more about HW failure of the box itself. I have quite a monster server with 20 bays, raid controller, server motherboard and 64 GB RAM

 

However, today since most of movies and audio I stream from the Netflix and Spotify, I mostly use unRaid for home production and documents backup (I still have 36 TB of archive though)

 

Anyway, the question is what happens if I decide to scale down and move to a smaller box once the unraid server fails.

What do I with the disks?

 

I do have CrashPlan Pro for everything, but I never tried it for recovery, honestly I am thinking also to buy some external 18 TB HDD to backup the documents and the home works and keep it with the parents

 

thanks in advance,

Michael

 

 

 

[JorgeB]

You just connect the disks to another computer, Unraid is mostly hardware agnostic, this might be a problem though:

1 hour ago, michael123 said:

raid controller

If it's really a RAID controller disks might not work correctly on a different one, one of the reasons RAID controllers are not recommended.

[michael123]

23 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

You just connect the disks to another computer, Unraid is mostly hardware agnostic, this might be a problem though:

If it's really a RAID controller disks might not work correctly on a different one, one of the reasons RAID controllers are not recommended.

 

Given there are no disk failure, I can connect the disks one by one right and copy its contents..? 

 

Sijce current capacity of HD drives, I believe the new server will be much smaller

 

Re: Raid controller, that's Adaptec HBA SATA/SAS.. Sorry 

 

[JorgeB]

14 minutes ago, michael123 said:

I can connect the disks one by one right and copy its contents..? 

Yes, using the same controller (if it's a RAID controller).