Brownbear1984
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Hi All
I'm looking to switch my current storage solution to TrueNAS Scale. My hardware is as follows
Lenovo TS140
CPU: E3-1226 V3
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
RAM: 16GB ECC
4x 4TB WD hard drives in MDADM raid 5
1 x 128GB SSD for the OS
It's currently running Plex and 4/5 docker containers.
I'm starting to run low on space (around 2TB free) and the case doesn't have any more room to add any more disks so I've decided to transplant the motherboard and drives to a larger 4U case and add a HBA (IBM M5110) in IT mode.
I have another 4 x 4TB disks on their way but I don't have the hardware to build TrueNAS side by side with my existing server. I was wondering if the below would be possible?
Apologies if this question has been asked before but when I searched for this all I could find was people trying to use mdadm in TrueNAS which I know is not supported.
I'm looking to switch my current storage solution to TrueNAS Scale. My hardware is as follows
Lenovo TS140
CPU: E3-1226 V3
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
RAM: 16GB ECC
4x 4TB WD hard drives in MDADM raid 5
1 x 128GB SSD for the OS
It's currently running Plex and 4/5 docker containers.
I'm starting to run low on space (around 2TB free) and the case doesn't have any more room to add any more disks so I've decided to transplant the motherboard and drives to a larger 4U case and add a HBA (IBM M5110) in IT mode.
I have another 4 x 4TB disks on their way but I don't have the hardware to build TrueNAS side by side with my existing server. I was wondering if the below would be possible?
- Install TrueNAS Scale on the SSD
- Create a new pool with the new disks
- Mount the MDADM array in the OS
- Move the data from the old array to the new pool
- Format the drives from the old array
- Add the old drives to the new pool
Apologies if this question has been asked before but when I searched for this all I could find was people trying to use mdadm in TrueNAS which I know is not supported.