Hello everyone!
Im new to this whole community and finally joined to ask this question. I hope Im posting in the right section.
I built my FreeNAS box a few months ago out of an old Dell Optiplex 760 w/ a Core2Duo, 8GB ram, and two 2TB WD Reds.
The machine has worked great but Ive recently acquired a Fujitsu M470-2 Power from work that wasnt being used anymore. This PC has a quad core Xeon @ 2GHz, 8GB ECC ram (up-gradable to 48GB), and more bays for HDDs.
http://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Publications/public/ds-CELSIUS-M470-2.pdf
My question is how do I go about swapping over my HDDs over to the new machine? Do I need to backup everything on my old box and start over from scratch? Do I need to install FreeNAS over the existing install on my USB drive? Or can I plug in my USB stick into the new machine and have it work? Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Im new to this whole community and finally joined to ask this question. I hope Im posting in the right section.
I built my FreeNAS box a few months ago out of an old Dell Optiplex 760 w/ a Core2Duo, 8GB ram, and two 2TB WD Reds.
The machine has worked great but Ive recently acquired a Fujitsu M470-2 Power from work that wasnt being used anymore. This PC has a quad core Xeon @ 2GHz, 8GB ECC ram (up-gradable to 48GB), and more bays for HDDs.
http://sp.ts.fujitsu.com/dmsp/Publications/public/ds-CELSIUS-M470-2.pdf
My question is how do I go about swapping over my HDDs over to the new machine? Do I need to backup everything on my old box and start over from scratch? Do I need to install FreeNAS over the existing install on my USB drive? Or can I plug in my USB stick into the new machine and have it work? Any help is appreciated.
Thanks