March 7, 20179 yr Hello everyone. I have used unraid since 4/20/2010 and it has served me very well. Besides a move to a new house and a few drive replacements, the machine has hummed along in my basement without issue. I am so glad I opted for the server class motherboard and processor. Today this beast sits with 18TB of data and 13+1 disks. Since moving to V6, I have wanted to do more with it but the machine lacks processor power and the 4G of ddr2 is not enough. I wouldn't mind rebuilding/replacing some hardware but I don't want to loose my data. Did I mention no real backups. I was planning to replace the motherboard, proc, memory, sata cards, and maybe the power supply. Since I have no real backups I want to be sure I have a plan and a backout plan before I start. My guess would be that as long as I assign the drives in order, there is no real way to mess up. Right? Anyone have ideas to make this go smooth?
March 7, 20179 yr Board, CPU, RAM should be straight forward. As you know about the assignments that should be all you need. For grins before you do any hardware changes copy your USB drive off to something in case something gets borked. Drives should be picked up and in theory start running as soon as you turn it on. I converted from Intel Celeron to i3 to AMD 8350 all without doing much other than swapping board, CPU, RAM. Just make sure all your drive connections are seated before turning on and if you have a SAS card that it fits the motherboard otherwise that might be a purchase. (i.e. PCI bus and what you buy doesn't have one) Whatever you look to replace with look to see if it has Vtx-d or IOMMU if you want to play with hardware pass through. Dockers are useful too as I'm sure you've gathered. Good luck and god speed!
March 7, 20179 yr You can actually save most (or all) of your present setup and settings. You didn't mention what your current version is but an update from version 5 is fairly straight forward. Earlier versions are bit more complicated. There is a Wiki for update that you can find here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Upgrading_to_UnRAID_v6 Don't be concerned about the length of it and a lot of users had very complex systems and the Wiki kept growing as their issues are addressed and solved. EDIT: I see that you are already on version 6. I would suspect that you can install the new hardware, stick in the present Flash Drive and the system will boot up and be working! Edited March 7, 20179 yr by Frank1940
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