MIgrating from Windows+StableBit To UnRaid


ripeart

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Currently running a plex server on Windows 2016, using Drivepool to manage storage. I want to migrate existing data to UnRaid. I think the workflow looks like this. Could you take a look and advise?

I now have various spinning disks for data and an SSD for OS.

  1. Install new SSD (I don't want to overwrite existing in case I need to rollback)
  2. Boot from flash drive Unraid and install Unraid to SSD
  3. Boot from SSD Unraid
  4. Create image of existing Windows disk
  5. Create VM in Unraid and restore windows image
  6. Boot VM
  7. Install new 10tb spinning disk and add to Unraid pool
  8. Transfer data from first 3TB disk. Once complete add 3TB to unraid pool. rinse and repeat.

Is that right? Some other questions:

 

Can I add drives to the array without having to rebuild or lose data?

Can I add parity anytime or does that have to happen at the beginning?

In Unraid do all drives need to be the same size like hardware RAID?

Any Windows driver issues I need to be aware of with the UnRaid environment?
In steps 4 & 5 can I do this from within UnRaid - if not what's the recommended methodology to copy the Windows install to a new SSD once UnRAID is installed?

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2 hours ago, ripeart said:
  • Boot from flash drive Unraid and install Unraid to SSD
  • Boot from SSD Unraid

Unraid installs to RAM fresh from the archives on flash at each boot and it runs completely in RAM. There is no way to install it to anything else. You can think of the flash as the firmware of an embedded device.

 

2 hours ago, ripeart said:

Can I add drives to the array without having to rebuild or lose data?

Yes

2 hours ago, ripeart said:

Can I add parity anytime or does that have to happen at the beginning?

Anytime

2 hours ago, ripeart said:

In Unraid do all drives need to be the same size like hardware RAID?

Unraid allows different sized disks in the array. Each disk is an independent filesystem, there is no striping.

 

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