Help with system upgrade and cache pool upgrade

[sminker]

So, been trying out unraid for the last week. Love it. Very much actually. Got openVPN set up for remote access, media sharing, delugeVPN, radarr, Pi-hole, Jackett, and backups for my Mac Books.

 

I don't run plex or anything else for sharing media. My Apple TV4k has Infuse app that direct streams almost all formats and Kodi in a couple other bedrooms.

 

I had two systems when I decided to try it out. An i7-4700 and a i7-7700 system. I put it on the 4700 that was running windows 10 and sharing the media to my network.

 

Well i don't really use my 7700 at all. Pretty much use my MacBook for nearly everything. The 7700 machine has M2 240GB SSD, vid card, better MSI gaming motherboard and a top of the line corsair PSU.

 

Current setup:

i7-4700

Gigabyte Mobo (nothing fancy)

16GB Ram DDR3

3x120GB SSDs (btrfs cache pool)

2x2TB WD Reds Data

1x3TB Toshiba Data

1x4TB WD Red Parity

 

Want to upgrade to this:

i7-7700

MSI Gaming Mobo

16GB Ram DD4 (plan on buying another set for total of 32GB)

Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

1x 240GB M2 SSD

(Rest of the HDDs the same)

Corsair PSU

 

Game Plan is to take a picture of exact drive setup in Unraid. Upgrade hardware. Reboot. Then do the cache swap with this process i found in the forums. 

 

1. Stop your dockers and VMs.

2. Disable docker and VMs in Settings, and switch off array auto-start.

3. Set the shares that are present on your cache disk to "Use cache disk: Yes".

4. Run the mover.

5. Check that the cache disk is now empty.

6. Stop the array and unassign the cache disk, then power down.

7. Replace the cache disk.

8. Power up and assign the new cache disk, then start the array.

9. Format the new cache disk.

10. Change the shares that you want on your cache disk to "Use cache disk: Prefer".

11. Run the mover.

12. Check that the cache disk is no longer empty.

13. Enable docker and VMs in Settings, and switch on array auto-start if preferred.

14. Start dockers and VMs.

 

Thanks for any help.

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