August 31, 20241 yr Hello, first time poster but long time user of Unraid. I have/had a Microserver N36L (ancient I know) which I modded with Unraid, extra SATA enclosure and BIOS update to enable the CD-ROM SATA port to full speeds. It had 5 x 8TB Western Digital Reds and 1 x 120GB Patriot SATA SSD. The setup was 2 x 8TB for parity, 3 x 8TB for Storage and 1 x 120GB for cache. This has been working for the last 3-4 years and I have been using the machine as a backup for my computers at home. No PLEX, no fancy stuff. Just good old backup. Unfortunately my power supply on the server died and I could buy a new one to fix it or I could buy either a ready made NAS (Ugreen seems a good option) or build another one. My main question is whether I can transplant the disks to the new machine, regardless of what it will be, and keep working as before without the need to format everything and start from the beginning. Data is not that crucial, but I would like to keep it.
August 31, 20241 yr Community Expert If no RAID controllers in old or new systems then should just work no problem. Many of us have replaced hardware using same flash and drives and Unraid just recognized the disks and worked as before.
August 31, 20241 yr Author 29 minutes ago, trurl said: If no RAID controllers in old or new systems then should just work no problem. Many of us have replaced hardware using same flash and drives and Unraid just recognized the disks and worked as before. N36L had no RAID controllers and the chipset was AMD as far as I remember. Ugreen has an Intel chipset and again as far as I can see, no RAID controller.
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