Completely new server build with disks - Help

[lordvaderxiii]

Hi Everyone

 

Im going to be replacing my 12 year old server (had unraid for 2 years) with a completely new machine and new drives and I want to essentially duplicate what I have onto my new hardware. 
Im moving from an array of mostly 1TB drives (total 4.7TB) and 2 SSD cache drives (Im nearly out of space) to an array of 4TB drives (total 12TB) and 2 SSD cache drives. 
My array is 91% full.

What is the best way to do this? Ideally I do not want the server to be down for long as it runs a lot of my home automation. 

 

Should I get the new hardware up and running with a trail licence and then move everything or do I follow the suggested answer in this thread?

I would also like to replace the flash drive as I used a cheap one not thinking about it. I know you can do a flash move.

 

Any suggestions would be great thanks. 

 

Edited August 27, 2019 by lordvaderxiii

[TRusselo]

tones of ways to go about it really...

how many drives can you have plugged into the new machine at once? 

6 or 8 sata ports on the motherboard?
or are you using a SAS expander card? HBA card?

 

do you want the new server to use the old drives and the new ones?

or do you only want to use the new disks...?

 

[lordvaderxiii]

18 minutes ago, TRusselo said:

tones of ways to go about it really...

how many drives can you have plugged into the new machine at once? 

6 or 8 sata ports on the motherboard?
or are you using a SAS expander card? HBA card?

 

do you want the new server to use the old drives and the new ones?

or do you only want to use the new disks...?

 

Hi @TRusselo

New board has 6 sata ports on it. (New server will have 4x4TB and 2 x M.2 NVMe drives)
No sas expander

Do not want to use the old drives only new ones

 

New board for reference