How does Unraid handle moving drives connected to motherboard to a SATA card?

[tmchow]

I have an asrock motherboard with miniSAS and support for an amazing 12 drives. 

 

I am moving to a new motherboard to get dual Xeon support for Plex transcodes but can’t find any motherboard with same amount of native drive support without costing a fortune. 

 

So instead I’m looking at getting the seemingly highly recommended LSI 9211-8i which should give me enough drive support since my case supports up to 12 drives anyways. (8 with LSI -+ whatever is supported on motherboard). 

 

Question is how I handle the migration. Can I just swap motherboard with be CPUs, addon the LSI card and connect drives? Or am I going to be caught with something crazy config wise?

[Squid]

15 minutes ago, tmchow said:

I’m looking at getting the seemingly highly recommended LSI 9211-8i

You'll have to flash it to IT mode if it doesn't come like that.  https://forums.lime-technology.com/topic/12114-lsi-controller-fw-updates-irit-modes/

 

 

15 minutes ago, tmchow said:

Can I just swap motherboard with be CPUs, addon the LSI card and connect drives? Or am I going to be caught with something crazy config wise?

Should be plug and play.  But, never hurts to take a screen shot of your drive assignments (and back up the flash drive) just in case the old controller and the new one name the drives slightly differently.

Edited October 15, 2017 by Squid

[thaddeussmith]

I've moved the same array configuration across six different motherboard/controller configurations without any negative impact.

 

You can find pre-flashed 9211's from this guy:  https://www.ebay.com/itm/New-IT-Mode-Genuine-LSI-9211-8i-SAS-SATA-8-port-PCI-E-Card-Bulk-pack-US-Seller/291641245650?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

 

I've had three from him so far without any issues and I believe I found the recommendation for this seller through another post here on the unRAID forums.