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I've been running an Unraid server for about a decade now without any issues in Unraid, but I'm running into limits on my old hardware and want to modernize the setup. I'm going to move any streaming media (music, movies, tv shows) to new, more capable hardware I'm slowly acquiring as components I want go on sale or otherwise drop prices. I'm going to keep all non-streaming files (backups, data hoarding, misc files) on the old hw. I have 18 data disks, 1 parity and 1 cache drive currently running on 6.8.3. What I want to do is move all disks with streaming media onto the new box I'm building, and leave the rest on the existing one. The split is probably 12 streaming media disks and 6 disks for the rest. I'm not quite sure what's the best way to move the disks to the new box and downsize the current box (remove 12 disks, and remove all music, movie and tv show shares). I'm assuming I can unassign the drives, move them to the new box, remove music/movies/tv shows shares on the old box, do new config on it and recalculate parity. That would take care of the old box I believe. What about the new box? After getting Unraid running on it, what's the process of plugging the old disks on the new box and continue from where I left off? Just assign the data drives, create shares, assign cache and parity, recalc parity? How about moving Plex and other Docker containers? Install Plex docker container on new box, stop Plex, copy appdata from old box to new, restart Plex? I'm at about 95% capacity on my current array. Most disks are completely full with 3 of the newer 16TB ones with about 8TB of free space combined at the moment and I have no empty hard drive bays in my case if that makes any difference.

Turns out this required a change in the syslinux bootloader config file (syslinux.cfg) as described here: Adding pci=realloc=off in the config solved the issue for me. Interesting that merely upgrading the CPU would have caused issues like this with the Linux drivers.

I have two, and no free PCI-Express slots. I'm going to try and see if things work better if I stick a cheap PCI graphics card on the empty PCI (non Express) slots.

I have an Unraid server I've been running since 2011 with no issues using i3-540 CPU (LGA1156). I upgraded the CPU to a i5-760 last night. The server booted just fine, and Unraid software is running, but all of the disk drives connected with a SATA controller (LSI 9201-8i) are missing. Unraid is only seeing the six hard drives connected directly to the motherboard. Again the setup is working just fine with the i3-540 CPU installed, and worked fine again after I installed the i3 CPU back. No other changes were made. Any ideas? Did I miss a BIOS setting I should have tweaked? Or did I get a busted i5 CPU?

I've been waiting to upgrade until I could update my SAS cards to LSI 9201-8i, which I finally had time to install Sunday evening. Upgrade from 6.5.3 went without a hitch. Nice work! The new web interface looks really sharp!

Apologies if this is answered somewhere, I couldn't find the answer with quick searches. How would I go about upgrading my unRAID server to the a version that's not the latest? I'm on 6.5.3 and I want to upgrade to the 6.6.x version. I'm not seeing a way to do that with the upgrade OS functionality. Is this possible? If so, how?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822179003 This is the best deal I've seen on large capacity HDDs this black friday. From what I can figure the deal starts in about 2 and a half hours. (12:01AM PST)

$25 / TB = $1000. Hot damn. And consider that you'll need to buy two to begin with to make sure the parity drive(s) are big enough.

Good suggestions. I think what I'm going to do with my rig is to replace the cache drive temporarily for preclearing the new disk(s). It seems like the path of least resistance to me. For longer term I actually have two more SATA interfaces available, but no empty HDD cages. I'll have to get some SATA power cables for the PSU so that I can plug new drives in. I'll have to figure out a safe way to hold the drives during preclearing, but that's it.

How do you guys preclear new drives for systems that are full? My unRAID system is full, my case has no empty drive cages or SATA connectors, so I can't really use it. I'm slowly replacing older drives with bigger, newer ones as I hit capacity. Preclearing used to be easy when I could just plug the new drive in an empty drive cage. No more.

$179.99 also on Newegg with a coupon code EMCRKBG22.

Both Amazon and Newegg are offering the Ironwolf Seagate NAS TB HDD for $190 today. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LZDFMWQ/ https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822179004 Sale ends today. I'm tempted...I don't really need new drives right now, but this is a pretty good price for a drive designed for NAS use. What's the consensus on these Ironwolf drives from Seagate?

I'm a fan of Invision's forums software, good upgrade! However, the default theme is a little "spacey". Lots of empty space everywhere, making shifting through forum posts slower than before, because there are less posts per page than before. Would it be possible to install a theme that has a bit more compact user interface?

That is a great price, and it's a very nice case. Great build quality. I bought one for a developer workstation I'm filling with drives I'm salvaging from my unRAID server when I'm replacing them with bigger ones. The only thing I'm not too happy about is that it gets really tight if you fill the case with drives. You are almost certainly going to screw up the wire management a couple of times before figuring out a way to snake them through/around/over the drive cages.

Looks like the changes are working quite nicely. I'm getting roughly 60MB/sec parity check speed at 780GB mark. Thanks a lot for your help Johnnie! Really, really appreciate it. This is going to cut days off the process of replacing the older drives with new ones.