March 11, 201214 yr For some more expansion possibilities I want to transfer my server to a new case + motherboard. In addition to this I want to change the parity and cache disk at the same time. Must these first be unassigned on the running system? Another thing is that the cache drive will go from 1TB to 500 GB. Will this cause any issues? I'm on 5.0b12a.
March 12, 201214 yr Should not be problem. As long as the hardware works with unRaid swapping MB is easy. I would not do all the changes at once though.
March 12, 201214 yr Author I have the mobo running on a second unraid stick. SATA is working and network is working. I can connect to it over LAN unmenu is installed. So far so good. I guess I need the unraid stick from the running server. Can I take the cache drive from the running server and copy over some data to the new cache drive?
March 12, 201214 yr To swap cache... If you have apps using the cache stop them. Copy contents of old cache to array. Disable cache and put new one in place. Then restore backup onto new cache and enable apps. There are other ways to do the same but that would be my approach. To migrate to new hardware.... From a migration perspective I would move the array as is to new hardware. After I'm sure it's stable I would start the drive swaps. If you need the added space now I would swap drives on old hardware and migrate to new hardware after all is confirmed working 100%
March 12, 201214 yr try not to do to many things in a single step.. do 1 change at a time, verify it works then make the next change. I would also verify parity before and after the swapout to make sure all is well.
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