I'm up and running and have found that the old PCI sata controller card I have isn't being picked up (and so the Disk on it isn't).

My old Mobo has only 4 SATA ports and theyre full.

A new Mobo may be cheaper than a new SATA controller card (plus I'll get on board video etc, etc).

 

So how easy is it to do open heart bypass surgery on your unRAID server?

If you swap out the mobo, CPU, and memory for new components, how do you bring your disks back into play without lossing data?

 

Thanks in advance....

Just go to the devices page once booted up on the new hardware and assign the drives to their same logical slots in the array.

It is as simple as that. (assuming they are all seen on their new controllers)

 

Joe L.

to make sure you know what driver is assigned where, do a screen print of the devices screen (landscape works best for this, in my opinion). That way, you have the exact picture and can view serial numbers and drive assignments. Works great.

of course yes.

and I've got a print out of the disk devices page so I can use that to assign them accordingly. I just feared that the OS might "start again" some how and loose data

I'm up and running and have found that the old PCI sata controller card I have isn't being picked up (and so the Disk on it isn't).

My old Mobo has only 4 SATA ports and theyre full.

A new Mobo may be cheaper than a new SATA controller card (plus I'll get on board video etc, etc).

 

So how easy is it to do open heart bypass surgery on your unRAID server?

If you swap out the mobo, CPU, and memory for new components, how do you bring your disks back into play without lossing data?

 

Thanks in advance....

 

Lol, whack me up side the head...I never did the math on buying a new mobo vs. new SATA card. My mobo is very old. probably a good 5 years old.  Wish I didn't buy that SATA card a few weeks ago...won't make that mistake again.