So I've been running unraid for a few years now and have run into a few different problems along the way so I know enough to do a bit of research before jumping into anything big and as of late I've been wanting to upgrade my Dell R710 as it came standard with only the most minimal amount of ram compared to what it can handle and the CPU is about average for the time, plus given the fact the hardware for the socket and ddr3 is stupid cheap given how old they are I decided to go from 68g of ram to 288 and from a Intel® Xeon® CPU X5650 @ 2.67GHz to a Matching Pair Intel Xeon X5690 3.46GHz 6.4GT/s 12MB 6 Cores 1333GHz LGA 1366 CPU.

       Now I know with windows when changing hardware normally everything goes smoothly, although when changing CPUs you might have to reenter your product activation key, or restart a number of times and double check updates for any missed drivers it didn't automatically download. Hard lessons learned on most of those, I'm wondering what I should do to prepare for doing this hardware upgrade on a unraid system. I've been skimming through old forum post about this topic and have seen a number of different issues that might arise from share folders getting out of whack to files no longer being assessable and really wanted to know if there is any walkthrough of things to do, a checklist so to speak of things to do both before and after to ensure this goes as smoothly as possible and to check for any problems after, before they become a real threat. Most of the threads I've seen seem to take about 24 hours after the install before they crop up so figured there has to be a better method then just sitting back and waiting to see if something goes wrong. Also would it be better to do a partial upgrade first, ie upgrade the ram and then wait a bit and then upgrade the CPUs or just do them all at the same time. 

 

Edited August 8, 20232 yr by AC-Gamer

It's usually plug and play if no RAID controllers are involved, if using VMs with passed-through devices they will likely need adjusting.