I got my hands on some new hardware and want to move all my existing set up (USB, drives, settings, etc) to it and want to make sure I do it correctly. If this is wrong place to ask or if there is a guide to do this, sorry I posted here and someone please direct me to it.

Here is what I think I know:

Document all the drives serial numbers and their corresponding IDs in Unraid

Take array offline

Power down

Move USB to new hardware - does this work? does it account for the license?

Move drives over

Power up

Check array

Assign drives the proper IDs

This seems to simplistic so any help is appreciated.

I’ve not done it yet myself, but I’ll be moving my rig to a new case and adding an LSI 9027-8i into it for moar storage in the next couple weeks… As I understand it, what you’ve documented it pretty much how to do it. The licence is on the USB stick, uses the UUID of it I believe.

I’ve seen many posts on here in the last few years and all have pretty much said that ‘it just works’ when changing hardware - whether that’s some or all of a new platform etc.

2 hours ago, xxDeadbolt said:

licence is on the USB stick, uses the UUID

GUID

2 hours ago, xxDeadbolt said:

‘it just works’ when changing hardware

Provided no RAID controllers involved (and assuming you haven't been trying to use USB disk connections). Make sure you know your disk assignments.

Also, any VM passthru hardware will need to be setup on the new hardware.

17 hours ago, trurl said:

GUID

Provided no RAID controllers involved (and assuming you haven't been trying to use USB disk connections). Make sure you know your disk assignments.

Also, any VM passthru hardware will need to be setup on the new hardware.

The old box has a RAID controller added since the main board didn't have enough SATA slots but the new one will have plenty.

The old system isn't using any dockers as I'm not that familiar with them.

15 hours ago, Jsfunk said:

The old box has a RAID controller

Actually RAID or an HBA ?

Your diagnostics might provide better picture.