Hello,

 

I am looking at upgrading from my current Microserver based unRAID machine to something a little more powerful to fufill various other tasks.

 

Is there a guide on how to move the drives from one 'machine' to another without losing the structure or integrity?

 

Regards,

 

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There is... but the Wiki's down.

 

But, it's pretty easy.  Just take a screenshot or print out your devices screen in UnRAID.  When you put the drives in the new system make the slots match up with the drives on your screenshot/printout.

 

You don't have to worry about the "SATA" order of drives, such as how the Motherboard and/or any SATA cards you might be using finds them, as long as it does (although, I would be sure to put the Parity and most used drives on the faster ports.)

 

The biggest one to worry about it the Parity slot, don't put a data drive in the Parity slot (nor put the parity drive in a "drive" slot.)  Putting a data drive in the Parity slot will likely result in lost data, but as long as all the drives are in the right slots the array should be easily start-able without requiring the parity to be re-built.

 

It was discussed here, at one point (I'm sure other places, too) http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20412.0