December 3, 20169 yr I'm upgrading my motherboard/cpu/ram and need a quick sanity check before I pull it all apart. All I have to do is take a screenshot of my unRaid config, stop the array, and shutdown the server. Change over the hardware, plug the data+parity+cache drives into any of the SATA ports, and boot back up. Then assign the drives to the same locations in the unRaid GUI. .... right?
December 3, 20169 yr I'm upgrading my motherboard/cpu/ram and need a quick sanity check before I pull it all apart. All I have to do is take a screenshot of my unRaid config, stop the array, and shutdown the server. Change over the hardware, plug the data+parity+cache drives into any of the SATA ports, and boot back up. Then assign the drives to the same locations in the unRaid GUI. .... right? If you don't mess with the config contents of the flash drive, there should be no reason to assign anything, it should come back up exactly as it was. It never hurts to take a backup of the flash drive and make screen shots right before a major operation, but as long as all the drives are accessible and identified the same way on the new controller, it will just work. That's one of the great things about unraid, as long as the hardware is good and compatible, it's totally portable with very little fuss.
December 4, 20169 yr Author Yup it popped right up! Had to reboot my server a second time for DMB shares to be accessible through Windows Explorer even though the web GUI was accessable. I had some fitment issues of the new hardware in my case and so my PCIe cache drive was not reinstalled. unRaid didn't even blink.
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