April 6, 20251 yr I'm running Unraid Plus 7.0.0 if that makes a difference I have 4 x 4TB data drives, 8TB parity drive and 240GB SSD cache drive. The server it is running on is getting old. I'm replacing my desktop (mid-tower, i5, 32GB RAM) and want to turn it into my UNRAID server. Is it as simple as moving the drives and USB from the existing server to the new one? Is there a write-up anywhere on how to do this? Edited April 6, 20251 yr by jtcweb
April 7, 20251 yr Community Expert As long as no RAID controllers are involved that should be it, any VMs with hardware pass through may need adjusting.
April 7, 20251 yr It's pretty simple, so it doesn't really need a writeup, but for security: Have a backup of the data, make a screenshot of the unraid page showing the drives, just in case. Disable autostart on the array, dockers, and VM's. Shut the server down. Move the drives and USB, start it up. Go to network settings, make sure the right port is selected, since the new server will have different MAC numbers. If it looks good, start the array, if that works well, check the configuration of dockers or VMs and start them one at a time, if they work well, go to the next and so on. Finally, you can enable autostart again if it was enabled before.
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