I have a 3-disk unraid setup that died.  I'm buying new hardware that supports booting from usb thumbdrives.  The now-dead machine was too old for usb thumbdrive so I have the boot drive on a 4gig compact flash drive. 

 

Should I:

a. keep using the compact flash drive on the new system

b. create a new thumbdrive and add my existing data drives to that system.

c. Somehow migrate the compact flash drive contents to a new thumbdrive

 

 

 

 

I have a 3-disk unraid setup that died.  I'm buying new hardware that supports booting from usb thumbdrives.  The now-dead machine was too old for usb thumbdrive so I have the boot drive on a 4gig compact flash drive. 

 

Should I:

a. keep using the compact flash drive on the new system

b. create a new thumbdrive and add my existing data drives to that system.

c. Somehow migrate the compact flash drive contents to a new thumbdrive

All you need from your existing drive is the "config" folder.  You can prepare a new flash drive and copy the config folder to the new flash drive.

 

Since all you really need to do is assign the drives on the disk assignment page, and that will be needed with the new MB regardless, you might not save a lot of effort by copying the config folder.  It would only help if you defined a lot of special permissions on your user-shares, but somehow, I don't think you ever got to that point.

 

So, it is really up to you.  As long as you know which of your drives are holding data, and which is the parity drive, and assign them accordingly on the new hardware, you'll be fine.

Thanks for the help.  I have ordered a 2GB Lexar FireFly flash drive.

 

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