Hi All,

I want to move my entire Unraid setup from it's existing server to some older kit so I can reuse the newer server. My existing server supports 8 drives but my old one only supports 4. Luckily I can drop the existing array down to four drives as I have quite a lot of spare space. So, I have a plan but I wanted to check it will work with people who know better...

• Move all my data off each drive in turn, removing drive and rebuilding parity - one drive at a time until I'm down to four drives.

• Pull my existing USB and all the drives from my current server and install into the older one.

• Power on and hope for the best.

I think this will work, but I'm wondering if I need to rebuild the config after I move everything across or whether it will just use the existing config OK.

Any thoughts please?

Thanks in advance

1 hour ago, Pandasoft said:

Move all my data off each drive in turn, removing drive and rebuilding parity - one drive at a time until I'm down to four drives.

I would move the data, remove all drives at the same time, then rebuild parity only once. The rest looks OK to me.

4 hours ago, JorgeB said:

I would move the data, remove all drives at the same time, then rebuild parity only once. The rest looks OK to me.

Ah - good point. That will save some time.

Thank you.