Good Afternoon, hope your all having/had a good weekend.

 

My current server is now coming to end of life (well, getting over stretched!).  It's a i7 3770, 32Gb ram and it's just not cutting it running the normal rack of docker containers with 3 VM (1 Gaming for the misses).

 

Friday i cracked and ordered a Supermicro X9DRH-7TF off of ebay with 2x E5-2603 (£250), the processors are going to be too slow, but my though is it gets me up and running while not adding much cost. I can soon update them in a month or two with something with more meat to it.  The board lists supporting non-ecc ram (not recommended i know) but i accept that i might have to order more.

 

Down to the brass tacks, i'm running Unraid 6.7.2, all my drives are on a LSI SAS2008 card (connected to a SAS expander), networking is currently handled by a dedicated card.  

 

Any recommendations on the best way to proceed? I have twin unraid pro licenses (1 i'm not using atm) so my thought was to backup (plus screen shots) the config to the other unraid drive and move the hardware across to the new setup.

 

Thanks for any help in advance.

Be careful ordering the board. I recently ordered one of the x9 series and found out that if the board was made before a certain hardware revision, being 1.2 with the x9dri it won’t accept the v2 cpus even after a bios update. Now have  a pair of 2630 v2s I can’t use even though the supermicro website says it would accept them.