Help. My FreeNAS ASRock C2750D4I system board failed. I can get into IPMI, but no POST. The old system has 12 drives with my life on them. I am trying to determine the best course of action to leverage another server I have and recover all my data. I have a Supermicro A1SAM-2550F, but it only has 6 SATA ports. I read many forum posts that lead me in different directions. My system did not use hardware RAID and was ZFS.
Options:
A) Move the USB drive containing FreeNAS to the new server. Add a PCIE card with more ports. Connect all drives and FreeNAS will figure it out.
B) Move the USB drive containing FreeNAS to the new server. Add 2 new larger drives to the new system. Connect 4 of the old system drives at a time and copy all data to the 2 new drives. Once done, connect the other 4 drives and move that data.
C) Buy a new C2750D4I system board and keep the system in-tack.
Questions:
1) Should I go option A or B?
2) If option A,
2a) should I buy an LSI card or a PCIE SATA III card to add SATA ports?
2b) Will FreeNAS see the old system drives on the SATA card as the old system saw them?
3) If option B,
3a) Will this work with the way ZFS spreads data?
Thanks
Options:
A) Move the USB drive containing FreeNAS to the new server. Add a PCIE card with more ports. Connect all drives and FreeNAS will figure it out.
B) Move the USB drive containing FreeNAS to the new server. Add 2 new larger drives to the new system. Connect 4 of the old system drives at a time and copy all data to the 2 new drives. Once done, connect the other 4 drives and move that data.
C) Buy a new C2750D4I system board and keep the system in-tack.
Questions:
1) Should I go option A or B?
2) If option A,
2a) should I buy an LSI card or a PCIE SATA III card to add SATA ports?
2b) Will FreeNAS see the old system drives on the SATA card as the old system saw them?
3) If option B,
3a) Will this work with the way ZFS spreads data?
Thanks