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Questions about migrating a ZFS RAID (self.selfhosted)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Presi300 to c/selfhosted

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I've recently been looking at options to upgrade (completely replace) my current NAS, as it's currently more than a little bit jank and frankly kinda garbage. I have a few questions about that and about migrating my current TrueNAS scale installation or at least it's settings over.

Q1: Does the physical order of the drives matter? I.E. The order they are plugged into the SATA ports.

Q2: Since I have TrueNAS scale installed on a USB flash drive (yeah, ik you're not supposed to but it is what it is), how bad of an idea would it be to just... unplug it from my current NAS and plug it into the new one?

Q3: If all else fails, how reliable is TrueNAS scale's importing of ZFS Pools and are there any gotchas with it?

Q4: Would moving to a virtualized solution like proxmox and installing TrueNAS scale on top of that in a VM make more sense on a beefier server?

E: Thank you all for the replies, the migration went smoothly :)

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[–] Presi300 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am not gonna be changing my drives, just the server itself and just wanna make sure I don't screw up my ZFS pools, as that does not sound fun. As for the hardware I'm looking at itself, it's not new ( a used server) but it's sure as hell better than what I have now I'm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Nothing wrong with used servers, that's the only thing I've ever run. Ebay has provided a ton of equipment to me.