How to best migrate to a new PC?

[Philebos]

Hi,

 

I started my Xpenology journey with an old PC. It has been running smoothly for roughly two months now.

 

However, the hardware is pretty power inefficient (70 Watts on average) and I want to switch to a more efficient built.

 

I have the new system ready, but I am not sure how to best migrate the HDDs without compromising my working and well configured DSM.

 

Has anyone experience with that?

[dj_nsk]

which bootloader are you using? what is the DSM model and version? what old and new hardware?

In the simplest cases, it will be enough to install the disks, build a bootloader on a new hardware and run

Edited July 11, 2023 by dj_nsk

[Peter Suh]

Simply, DSM does not change in the process of replacing MOBO or CPU.
Migration is not considered unless there is a change in the RAID configuration of the disk or the SATA / SAS controller.
I've only replaced the MOBO and CPU/RAM several times.
It doesn't seem like there's much to worry about.

[Philebos]

Bootloader: Automated Redpill Loader with DSM 7.1. 

 

old Hardware: Dell 0GY6Y8 Motherboard with Intel Xeon E3-1220L V2

 

new Hardware: Gigabyte B560M DS3H V2 with Intel Core i5-11600T

 

 

I made a full Backup of DSM and will try switching to the new System now.

 

I will report back the results

 

 

[dj_nsk]

В 7/10/2023 в 11:23 AM, Philebos сказал:

However, the hardware is pretty power inefficient (70 Watts on average) and I want to switch to a more efficient built.

 

1 час назад, Philebos сказал:

new Hardware: Gigabyte B560M DS3H V2 with Intel Core i5-11600T

I'm not sure that your new hardware will reduce power consumption much less than 70W.

For example: CPU - 35W + 4xHDDx5W = 55W

[Philebos]

so, I successfully migrated to the new System. Everything went surprisingly quick and smoothly. Everything immediately continued working like it did before.

 

What I did:

 

1. Transfer HDDs to new system in same order (Sata 0 --> Sata 0; Sata 1 --> Sata 1 etc.) (not sure if this is necessary but that's what I did)

2. Build new bootloader on new system

3. Boot system from new loader 

4. Connect to DSM from Browser and click "restore" 

 

 

[dj_nsk]

12 часов назад, Philebos сказал:

1. Transfer HDDs to new system in same order (Sata 0 --> Sata 0; Sata 1 --> Sata 1 etc.) (not sure if this is necessary but that's what I did)

this isn't necessary

[ToanVQ]

On 7/11/2023 at 8:02 PM, dj_nsk said:

 

I'm not sure that your new hardware will reduce power consumption much less than 70W.

For example: CPU - 35W + 4xHDDx5W = 55W

HDDs will take about 5-9W per hdd, but cpu (+mainboard+ram) will take only 20w when idling

[Fox Mulder]

On 7/11/2023 at 11:47 PM, Philebos said:

so, I successfully migrated to the new System. Everything went surprisingly quick and smoothly. Everything immediately continued working like it did before.

 

What I did:

 

1. Transfer HDDs to new system in same order (Sata 0 --> Sata 0; Sata 1 --> Sata 1 etc.) (not sure if this is necessary but that's what I did)

2. Build new bootloader on new system

3. Boot system from new loader 

4. Connect to DSM from Browser and click "restore" 

 

 

What if the new motherboard has 4 SATA ports, and I am adding extra with a SATA expansion PCIE card?

Moving from a 5 disks setup on a 6 SATA ports motherboard.

[Trabalhador Anonimo]

Same thing, no problem.