I'm trying to figure out the best way to move Unraid from an old (Nehalem-based) system to a brand new DXP4800 Plus, while simultaneously moving from Unraid 5 to 7.

I'm thinking the cleanest way to do this would be to take the parity disk from the old system and format it as a data disk in the new system, then copy the data from disk 1 on the old system to the former parity disk, then move disk 1 from the old system to the new system and copy the data from disk 2 to disk 1, and repeat this process until all the disks are migrated and use the final data disk as the new parity disk, but before I do anything I figure it doesn't hurt to ask: is there a better migration strategy?

Edited April 30Apr 30 by Raident

If you are on v5 the disks will be using reiserfs, so, it's best to format with a new filesystem and copy the data.