So I got some new servers at home to play with. Originally I thought I would go the FreeNAS route on one and VMWare on the other.  I got this all setup and now I am worried about the always spinning disks on FreeNAS and the power consumption and drive failure because of that. So I am thinking I will leave my VMWare server up for the VMs I want but stick with UnRAID v6 as my main storage server for 7200 spindles (vmware is all 10k, and 15k). 

 

That is the background, now the new storage server is all SAS and much larger drives.  I would like to migrate my current UnRAID server data to the new server as well as my license. Because the old ones are SATA i dont think i can just move the disks and thumbdrive.  So I am looking for suggestions. I do not want to have to buy another copy of UnRAID, but I am thinking my only option is to create a new UnRAID server with the SAS drives and manually copy everything?  Please advise... 

Well, the straight-forward way to go is to bring up the new server with the Unassigned Devices Plugin and mount the old disks on the new server and copy the data.  This also assumes the new server has SATA capability.  Does that work, or were you hoping to copy the data over your network?

I was hoping to have them both running concurrently so my sickbeard tasks continue while I set up the new one.  Is there a full drive trial? 

No, unRAID trial licenses restrict the number of drives in use.  If you want to have two full servers up and running side by side with more drives than are supported by the trial license, you'll have to purchase another license.  That's not such a bad thing, I think having a backup server is a good idea.  If you just wanted to migrate the data then there are options... 

 

Also, the unRAID 6 trial is fairly flexible in comparison to the unRAID 5 trial - it supports cache devices so you can get your Dockers running.  Perhaps partially building out the new server, getting things running, then transferring the license is an option.