Upgrading to new system

[tapar]

I have been enjoying unraid for a while now.  I have had very few problems over the years and am very happy with unraid.  I have not been following things closely so I do feel a bit out of the loop.  The last time I switched systems was back in 2012 and I don't remember having any problems.  I have been running an older 24 bay system from supermicro.  I am currently waiting on delivery for the parts to a new server to replace that system.   I would welcome any recommendations or warnings about potential issues I might run into.

 

Current 2012 unraid server:

• unRAID 6.8.3 - Pro  
• Case: SuperMicro SC846TQ 24 Bay Server Chassis
• Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart 700W
• Mobo: SuperMicro H8DME-2 
• CPU: Dual Core AMD Opteron, 2212 HE 2 GHz  
• Mem: 8GB DDR2 EEC  
• SATA Controller: AOC-SAT2-MV8 PCI-X (x2)  
• Parity: WD Red 8TB
• Cache: None  
• 35TB Array:  (3x) WD Red 8TB, (3x) WD Red 3TB, (1x) WD Green 2TB

 

New 2020 unraid server: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xcrWhg

• unRAID 6.8.3 - Pro  
• Case: Antec P101 Silent ATX Mid Tower
• Power Supply: Thermaltake Smart 700W
• Mobo: Gigabyte B360M D3H GSM Micro ATX LGA1151
• CPU: Intel Core i3-8100 3.6 GHz  
• Mem: 16 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 CL16
• SATA Controller: Dell H310 SAS HBA card  
• Parity: WD Red 8TB
• Cache: OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD
• 41TB Array:  (4x) WD Red 8TB, (3x) WD Red 3TB

 

One of my goals is to try and keep the cost down as much as possible.  I recently bought the power supply to replace a dead one for the current system so I intend to reuse it in the new system.  I am going to re-use all the hard drives as well and replace my final old 2TB drive with a new 8TB drive (recently removed four 2TB drives that were around 8+ years old).  I am assuming that if I bring over the USB flash drive with my unraid os on it, I should be good there and don't need to do anything with the license to make it work.

 

I intend to continue running Deluge, Sonarr, and Radarr on my new server.  I do not intend to run a Plex docker.  My main PC runs a plex server and handles the transcoding so it does not have to be run on my unraid server.  I added the 120GB SSD cache drive to be used by the dockers for AppData.  I do not intend for it to be used by the other unraid shares.  I don't copy much data from my PC to unraid, things download directly to unraid so I don't need that functionality (hence the small SSD).

 

It was a surprisingly difficult decision deciding how many drives I wanted to support.  I have loved the ability to just add new drives and leave the old ones in the system and had 14ish drives going at one point.  I have been replacing old 2TB drives with newer larger drives and am now down to 8 drives total ( 1 parity+7 data).   This was important because that was the main dictating factor on what type of case was acceptable.  The Antec case I chose has eight 3.5" drive bays and one 5.25" bay, it can also hold two SSD drives behind the mobo.   This lets me keep all my current drives and have room to add one more in the 5.25" bay if I am in a pinch and need to upgrade.   I figure for expandability I could slowly replace the 3TB drives with larger drives as they start to age out.   I am very much looking forward to a much quieter system.

 

I am not really anticipating any problems, at least not now that I remembered to also order the SATA cables I would need.  Still any tips or recommendations would be welcome.