detz Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 My hard is old, my CPU is a dual-core 800Mhz and I have 2G of ram. Instead of upgrade that system I want to use my old gaming PC instead. It's a quad-core 3.1Ghz with 8GB ram. What would be the process of doing this? Ideally I use the same case I just swap the motherboard out, what will happen to unraid when I do this? I'd also like to upgrade to 6 from 5 during this upgrade to since it would be nice to be able to run my Steam games on it still using the new VM features. What's needed to support this? Thanks, Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Since you're already on v5, there's nothing to it. Just upgrade the hardware; connect the drives; and boot to your UnRAID flash drive. I'd do the hardware swap first and confirm all is okay; and THEN do the upgrade to v6. Quote Link to comment
HellDiverUK Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 UnRAID is great for moving between machines. No issues at all, if the hardware works with recent Linux kernels, then it'll work with UnRAID. Quote Link to comment
detz Posted November 26, 2015 Author Share Posted November 26, 2015 Cool, as other upgrades I'll just have to make sure the drives are still in the same order before starting? Is this hardware good for unraid6? Can I run virtualization on it? http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B004RQAJU4?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage' http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B004EBUXIA?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_search_detailpage Quote Link to comment
HellDiverUK Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Cool, as other upgrades I'll just have to make sure the drives are still in the same order before starting? No, it doesn't matter in any way. UnRAID tracks drives by their serial number. You'll only need to note which is your parity drive, in case you need to reset the config or your flash drive dies. I tend to keep the parity drive separate if I can, leaving a gap between it and the other drives. Quote Link to comment
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