Steasenburger
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Hi everyone,
I currently have a set of 4x2TB SATA HDDs attached directly to the motherboard of my TrueNAS Scale server that have one pool on them (Raid Z1 array).
Those drives are already quite old, of mixed quality (they were all bought used) and 2 already had to be replaced, so I decided to completely replace all the drives with 4x2TB SSDs.
Those drives have arrived recently, and now I am struggling on how to migrate the data to my new shiny SSDs.
I already did some online research and what I can conclude is that replicating them with ZFS send| receive using the "Replication Tasks" GUI seems to be the most straightforward and safest way.
But the problem is that my server only has 4 SATA ports available, so I cannot simply attach all the new drives to the server and create a pool there.
My question now is, do I really need to spin up a second server and buy SATA cable to attach the drives to it, just to migrate the data to the new SSDs?
Or is there somehow a way to transfer the data of each drive one by one? Maybe using something like CloneZilla - Would this work?
Thanks in advance :)
I currently have a set of 4x2TB SATA HDDs attached directly to the motherboard of my TrueNAS Scale server that have one pool on them (Raid Z1 array).
Those drives are already quite old, of mixed quality (they were all bought used) and 2 already had to be replaced, so I decided to completely replace all the drives with 4x2TB SSDs.
Those drives have arrived recently, and now I am struggling on how to migrate the data to my new shiny SSDs.
I already did some online research and what I can conclude is that replicating them with ZFS send| receive using the "Replication Tasks" GUI seems to be the most straightforward and safest way.
But the problem is that my server only has 4 SATA ports available, so I cannot simply attach all the new drives to the server and create a pool there.
My question now is, do I really need to spin up a second server and buy SATA cable to attach the drives to it, just to migrate the data to the new SSDs?
Or is there somehow a way to transfer the data of each drive one by one? Maybe using something like CloneZilla - Would this work?
Thanks in advance :)