February 11, 201412 yr Hi All OK... hopefully someone can get me started on this... currently I have a home made machine with a mixture of 1Tb & 2Tb disks (giving me 7Tb of usable space) running v4.7... all running OK at the moment Yesterday I got an HP Proliant Microserver which will allow 4 disks natively... so I have ordered some 3Tb Western Digital Red disks and plan to have 4 x 3Tb on the array and mount a 3Tb parity drive in the ODD slot (not keen on squeezing 2 disks in there at the moment ). Last night I put v5.0.5 FREE on a memory key and it looks really good (thanks!)... but, here is my dilema - at the moment if I build the new box with a FREE key I can only have 1 x parity + 2 data disks... which means that I will only get 2 x 3Tb usable - but need to shuffle 7Tb data across. Initially I thought of using the 2Tb parity drive from my live server so I would get 8Tb initially and take the gamble that no disks fail while the new server is preclearing and then the data copying over the network But... of course with a FREE key I cant set up a new array to land the data on... So I wondered if I could pull the USB key out of the live server without it falling over - build the new one using the registered key, copy the data over and then decommission the old one... or whether I could get a "loan" full version to allow the two boxes to coexist for a couple of days while I migrate?? There must be a solution and I am trying to read too much into this... so some fresh thoughts would be appreciated. Tonight I am going to try to flash the BIOS to get full speed on the ODD data channel - but any other comments or thoughts greatly appreciated - oh, and if all goes well, does anyone want to buy a secondhand UNRAID server with about 10Tb of disks Thanks in advance.
February 11, 201412 yr You could use the free version to create a server using 2 data disks + parity on the new system. Then copy over 2 data disks from the old system. Reset the config on the new server and make a new array with 2 new data disks + parity. Copy over the remaining data. Move the Flash drive to the new system and set a new config using all the disks.
February 12, 201412 yr Author Thanks Trurl - yes, great offer and I will be buying a second key so I can sell my old rig as a ready to go solution Likewise Dgaschk - its so obvious.... but sometimes you look at something for so long you cant see the wood for the trees!! I have flashed the Microserver BIOS so that the ODD sata port runs at full speed - but can anyone point me to a post on how to test the read/write speeds to make sure that it is similar to the other SATA ports and not slower at all? Thanks again.
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