Upgrading your Unraid server

[Skatman]

Morning all. Been contemplating upgrading the internals of my media server for some time and I'll probably look to make a move next year.

 

In my gaming PC, I currently have an R7 3700X CPU which I would look to upgrade to an R7 5800X and then use the 3700X in my media server. This would mean I'd need to buy a new motherboard and get some faster memory (the ones I've got are 2666MHz and Ryzen likes 3200MHz+).

 

When the time comes, can I literally just take the old stuff out, stick the new stuff in, reconnect the drives, and UnRAID will figure it out and just make it work? Or do I need to make sure the drives are reconnected into the equivalent sockets (SATA 1, SATA, 2, etc?) Could it be that all the array drives themselves are fine (given that data isn't striped in UnRAID), but the parity drive(s) will need to be rebuilt?

 

What's the situation?

[ChatNoir]

Unraid identify the drives by their serial numbers. You should be fine with the NAS and Docker parts.

 

If you passthrough hardware to VMs, you would have to make some updates.

[Skatman]

Cool. I thought that should be the case, but wanted to make sure.

 

I have enabled QS passthrough which obviously will not be available with the upgrade to an R7. My ultimate end-goal is to get a P2000 - but that's further down the line along with a PSU upgrade.