March 24, 20188 yr Right now I'm running a trial version of unraid. I'm practicing setting it all up. Configuring it, testing it out with file transfers and automation's, etc. Really liking what I'm seeing so far. I have, what I'd consider to be a big boy server coming here soon. Right now, it's running off just a simple dual core i3 system. When my new system gets here, if I simply plug the USB into the new tower, using the exact same HDD and SSD (for caching), will it simply pick up where it left off... or will I have to run the install all over again, re-setup all of my dockers and settings, etc?
March 24, 20188 yr Yes. Its tied to the usb thumb drive. You can change out all the other parts without any hassles, as long as the hard drives identify as the same serial numbers. Its extremely rare and very untypical setup, but sometimes hard drives will identify differently when connected through certain raid controllers. Users tend not to use hardware raid controllers with unraid.
March 24, 20188 yr Yeah man, you can typically move your critical storage to all new h/w, new motherboard, CPU, etc, and everything, including docker containers and VM's "just work". Ok if you upgrade a GPU there might be some driver work to do inside your VM. Want your windows VM "c-drive" faster? Just shutdown VM, move vdisk to faster device (increase size of vdisk in process if you want), restart VM - again, just works. For certain configs if something does go wrong, there are lots of friendly people here to help.
March 24, 20188 yr Author Does unraid benefit at all from ultra fast USB's? Right now it's on literally a random free 8GB USB I got from a loot crate a couple of years back. Would I benefit at all by migrating the data off of it until a USB that actually can achieve 200+Mbps read/write speeds?
March 24, 20188 yr Community Expert 7 minutes ago, Meller said: Does unraid benefit at all from ultra fast USB's? Right now it's on literally a random free 8GB USB I got from a loot crate a couple of years back. Would I benefit at all by migrating the data off of it until a USB that actually can achieve 200+Mbps read/write speeds? No. UnRAID is loaded into RAM on boot and runs from there so the speed of the USB stick makes no difference in normal running.. You only occasionally get small writes to the USB stick when configuration changes that need to be persisted happen. In fact many motherboards have proved to have problems handling the faster USB sticks during the boot phase and it has been found that in practise USB2 sticks seem to often be the ones that work most reliably. You do want one that will prove to be reliable.
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