My current setup is running on Windows with Windows Storage Spaces and I want to upgrade to UnRAID 

 

Current setup

AMD 3950x 16 core processor

128GB RAM

5x 2TB Gen 4 NVMNE (OS and Virtual Machines)

16X 14TB NAS HDDs in 4 arrays without parity with 4 drives each (storage)

5x 4TB SSD in single array (fast access Storage and Cache)

AMD 7950 GPU

2X LSI 16 port cards

4x 10GB Network adapter

 

As far as I can tell all hardware will be compatible with UnRAID. 

 

I want to switch to UnRAID from Windows without data loss if possible. I have been unable to find a way that UnRAID could read the windows storage spaces arrrays. If I have to copy all the data off of the arrays this is going to take a significant amount of time and hardware. Is there any way to read and convert the arrays to unRAID?

 

I am planning on purchasing a JBOD box to connect to the box with additional drives but I am not ready to do that just yet. Is the only way I am going to be able to do this is to connect that to another server, copy the data there and then setup UnRAID and move the data back? 

 

Any help is appreciated. I am not familiar with UnRAID. I work on Windows and Linux but have never setup UnRAID and have been unable to find out if there is a way to do this from searching

 

 

17 minutes ago, MrGreenJeans said:

Is there any way to read and convert the arrays to unRAID?

Not as far as I know, you'd need to copy the data from one to the other.

4 hours ago, MrGreenJeans said:

Is the only way I am going to be able to do this is to connect that to another server, copy the data there and then setup UnRAID and move the data back? 

 

You could have a large external USB drive formatted in NTFS.  Copy data there from Windows and then mount the drive in Unraid using the Unassigned Devices plugin which supports NTFS.  When mounted in UD, copy to the Unraid array.  Lather, rinse and repeat with more data.