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Well during a 4 day backup it decided it had enough, and completely died. MB or CPU not sure which error was C2 on MB. Got it to do 16 I think but no go and then back to C2. (using Synology Business active backup)

 

So time for an upgrade as far as CPU and motherboard and memory go. But unsure what to replace with, my use case is large storage and multiple VM's and docker containers. I like testing out new things that catch my interest.

Any suggestions of what to get would be appreciated.

 

For now I need to install a underpowered MB, CPU, Ram just to get it running to finish backup but the disk picture I have does not include the two newer 24TB HD's. So unsure of order. And do not want to wipe out a data drive as mistake.

So how would I go about trying to put them in the correct order?

Your flash drive should work in the new hardware. It has all of your configuration (all settings from the webUI) including disk assignments and your license.

So drive order does not matter because it is saved on the USB flash drive. No matter how I plug in to the new MB. I'm understanding this correctly? Also I'm going from AMD to Intel on the donor board, so Unraid should not care?

Just now, grumpy said:

So drive order does not matter because it is saved on the USB flash drive. No matter how I plug in to the new MB. I'm understanding this correctly? Also I'm going from AMD to Intel on the donor board, so Unraid should not care?

Yes - with any luck it will all ‘just work’.  

Assuming no RAID controllers involved in old or new system (and no assigned disks using USB connection), Unraid should be able to identify the drives. Unraid keeps track of disk assignments by disk serial number.

 

If you had any hardware passthru to VM, you might have to reconfigure that.

Life got in the way!

Well the two spare boards I have are not 100% suitable.

1 has 4 Sata with two NVME on board (Dell) the other 6 sata no NVME. My dead server has 6 HDDs and two NVME as cache.

I have ordered a LSI SAS 9300 16I HBA Card, which I wanted for the original server but now leaves flexibility for future plans. Will not be here till next week.

 

So now I'm going to try booting the 6 HD's just so I can finish the backup that it was in process of when the server died. No cache will be available during this process with all 6 Sata drives only. Other choice is NVME drives with 4 Sata in degraded pool. Not sure which option is the better option.

Well it is not going smooth, The CPU is an I3-7100 2 core 2 threads, but it is currently backing up 35 TB data. The parity drive does not get recognized by Unraid even though the bios recognizes it. (24 TB) Unlikely the drive as it was new 3 months ago, probably some other limitation. Yes checked cables and power. And I can run docker; just heimdall as I'm somewhat lost without it.

 

Need to get new MB, CPU and memory. The I91400-t looks about right but no embedded motherboards yet. Would go WS/Server grade but have not seen anything that interest me that I can get in Canada.