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JasonSTX

Migrating hardware results

TLDR; it went perfectly.

I moved from an old i5-6600/32gb ex-gaming PC to a dual Xeon silver 4114/128gb in a Dell T7820 case.

I simply shut down the old system and moved the 4 drives plus the 2tb cache m.2 to the new case, installed my 1080GTX inserted the USB internally on the board and booted it up. It took a bit to get into the bios and set the boot order but once done it came right up. Nothing was missing and everything just worked. I was very impressed.

It is funny though seeing all 20 cores available. I need to research if it is worth having hyper threading enabled or not.

Posted Feb 2, 2023, 12:07 AM UTC

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marcwmarcw•

just did my move over today as well. I actually did have a minor hangup. Had this unraid usb so long it wasn't setup for UEFI boot and the new motherboard wouldn't boot any other way. big ol' thanks to TruckBC for pointing out in another post (https://old.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/ilt7b6/allow_uefi_boot/i8e48il/) that to swap it all you have to do is rename the EFI- folder to EFI. Was so frustrated till I found that

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ImissHurley•

I'm on my fifth motherboard for unRAID since 2008. Never had a hiccup when moving the array to new hardware.

I'll be moving to my third fourth chassis later in the week. I don't expect any issues.

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JasonSTXOP•

I just remember the multitude of issues going from Windows Server versions on different hardware. Such a PITA and this was a true breath of fresh air.

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RocZero•

Moving from 2 xeons to Ryzen soon to save some power. Crossing my fingers

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arYphySionDOGRAPerFu•

I'm a little frustrated having chosen Ryzen for my build. They only accept UDIMM memory sticks which are super expensive and you lose Intel quick sync for Plex. I have a gpu for transcoding but GPUs don't transcode audio. Sometimes I'll get 40-80% CPU spikes while transcoding to certain Plex clients. Not sure what the answer is as I need to do more research. But figured I'd point it out to you just in case

I'm rocking a 5600X on stock air.

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dro3m•

I’m using the integrated Vega 8 graphics on my 2200g for my plex transcoding needs. But most of my clients can direct play anyways. But when it does transcode it works great.

In your case Quadro P400 would work great. Around $60-70 on eBay and can handle 17+ 1080 transcodes and a few 4k.

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arYphySionDOGRAPerFu•

Does quadro transcode audio? I have a 1070 now doing transcoding. I should sell it but its value has basically tanked recently.

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dro3m•

No… Not sure if it’s even possible for a ANY graphics to transcode audio. Audio transcoding in done by software regardless.

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Most-average-person•

Nice. I am currently using a Ryzen 1600 but am looking a building something else to drop some more power.

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fishmongerhoarder•

Great to hear. I have my back up server I need to upgrade. I am new to unRAID and was a little worried.

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Nyk0n•

Yes it's easy because it auto detects the hardware on boot up because it runs in memory

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beyonddc•

Good to know.. I am thinking of an upgrade in a year or two. My unRAID is still running on a i7-2600k.

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NIronwolf•

Mine's on an i7-990X but I've got a 4x E7-4850V2 on order. I was hoping it was going to be as simple as described here. Yay!

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TheBelgianDuck•

Could be a bit of r/humblebrag

But I'm glad it went smoothly, thanks for the feedback

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JasonSTXOP•

I am not sure what the humblebrag is with replacing a 7 year old desktop system that cost $700 with a 2 year old workstation that also cost $700.

I was wanting to highlight the different processor/architecture changes in reference to the migration so as to ease others fears of trying it as well.

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TheBelgianDuck•

Yes. Sorry. Somehow I misread and saw a Nvidia 40x0 GPU, where you deployed something reasonable. Also I was impressed by the number of cores. My setup kinda runs with 4 on 2016 hardware.

Sorry I'm an ass sometimes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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JasonSTXOP•

It’s cool.

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