Macaroni323
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I see many discussions on building a new server and moving drives but all see complicated by other circumstances (live failed server, new server is getting new hard drives or SSD). I have a FreeNAS 11.3 U5 running with and SSD boot and 4 4TB WD Red drives for an 8TB pool. Really simple, no jails, no special features running. It is built on a 15 year old D975XBX2 mobo with a Xeon (in Pentium Pinout) and 8G of ECC RAM. All works fine and I've decided to build a new "official" server. The new machine is an ASRock C3758D4I-4L mobo and Atom CPU with 32GB ECC RAM but I will need to use my current SSD for boot and my data drives (keeping data intact).
I would like to know if I could simply ready the new machine, burn it in (usually run a few diagnostic tools over night) and then simply move the SSD boot drive (without rebuilding the boot drive) and move all 4 data drives without exporting/importing the pool? Simply shut down old server, move the disks, turn on the new server. Yes the data and configs are backed up so I have a recovery plan.
I would like to know if I could simply ready the new machine, burn it in (usually run a few diagnostic tools over night) and then simply move the SSD boot drive (without rebuilding the boot drive) and move all 4 data drives without exporting/importing the pool? Simply shut down old server, move the disks, turn on the new server. Yes the data and configs are backed up so I have a recovery plan.