March 14, 201313 yr Hi all, I am a very satisfied unRaid user for years, looking for some advice. I currently have 14 drives (1 parity, 13 data). Of these, 8 are 500G PATA drives, which are getting harder to find for replacement. I just had another fail. After I get the array rebuilt, I need to get all data transferred to a new machine, which which will have higher volume SATA drives. My thinking is to go through one drive at a time (mount to external PC), and copy the data across the network. This will take me forever, considering it is like 8T of data. Is there any better ways to do this? Thanks!
March 14, 201313 yr Maybe add an IDE card to your new build and mount the old disks outside the array to do the copy?
March 14, 201313 yr Author Is there a way to do that? I thought once you add a physical drive, it gets detected by UNRAID and automatically added to array?
March 14, 201313 yr Install unMenu or SNAP to mount the drives in the new array. If the new MB has an IDE connection then you can install 2 disks at a time. It may still be faster to copy the disks one at a time.
March 14, 201313 yr You could assign each of the old pata disks as cache disk and take advantage of the built in "move now" functionality, see this old thread. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3822.msg33553#msg33553 Regards Jan
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