Transfer large data from SSD over SATA (unpooled) into Dataset

[Harsturomai]

Hey guys,

I have 4 individual 4TB SSD (16TB total) drives that are full of business critical data. These drives are external (i.e. are not part of the machine, however, they can be plugged into the machine temporarily via SATA.) My machine has TrueNAS Scale setup and I need to transfer the data on those drives into a Dataset. Network will be too slow so I may as well plug them into SATA.

Do I just copy the data across via terminal? Sounds risky....
Do I create a new pool with the SSDs and transfer to the dataset on the existing pool? If so, how?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[jgreco]

Do I create a new pool with the SSDs and transfer to the dataset on the existing pool? If so, how?

Definitely do NOT do this. Creating a pool will destroy whatever is on the SSD's.

Do I just copy the data across via terminal? Sounds risky....

Riskier than having four nonredundant individual drives full of business critical data laying around? (thinking: "People say the weirdest things")

There isn't some sort of magic solution here. Doing this over the network is generally the safer option, just because the options for doing it at the shell prompt all involve direct operations on the drives, which could be hazardous if you are unfamiliar with them. At least over the network, you've presumably got familiarity with the client device that was used to put these files on the SSD's.

 

[ChrisRJ]

For critical business data I would, right now, not go for TrueNAS Scale but Core.