Pugnacious Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 My wife has decided that the dedicated machine is in the way. I want to combine unraid with my new gaming machine. I haven't put the parts for the gaming machine together yet, and won't for a few days, however if it's possible, I plan on combining the machine with unraid and using my gaming machine as a VM on top of unraid. Is it possible to physically move the existing disks to the new hardware, without losing the data? or would it be a better plan to migrate the data off using a portable hard drive a few hundred gigs at a time? I still have two TB of files that I haven't added to the NAS yet, but I have around 1.2TB of files already on the NAS, and I would hate to loose those files. Hence the use of a dedicated NAS for them. The gaming machine will be a direct upgrade of my current machine, and there will be enough SATA ports for all the unraid disks plus my SSD for a boot drive. I haven't played with VM's on unraid at all. I'm just guessing that I will be able to give it a dedicated drive, and pass the single GPU through to the VM. Also, Do the VM's auto-start with unraid in the event that a power loss occurs? or would I be required to boot up a second machine and trigger the VM? Link to comment
trurl Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 If you boot from the same flash then unRAID will probably not care if it is in a different machine. In the unlikely event that there are issues we can work through them. You won't lose any data. I have replaced motherboards, CPUs, controllers, cases, power supplies. unRAID has always booted up just fine with all my disks assigned just as before. Link to comment
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