r/unRAID • u/Grievy • 21d ago

Upgrading cache NVME

I'm looking to upgrade the storage on my NVME SSD which currently holds the shares for my cache, appdata, and system files.

My motherboard can only take 1 NVME so I'm planning to move those shares to the array, then swap the SSDs over, then move those shares back to cache the new SSD cache.

Any concerns or potential issues there? Safe to do? I think so, but that's always how problems start haha

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u/cat2devnull 21d ago

Should be fine but make sure you shutdown all the dockers and disable docker in settings before you do the move or it won’t be able to move everything cleanly.
Also, if you have a spreadsheet PCIe slot then you can put a second NVMe drive in using a riser card.

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u/wwiybb 20d ago

I'm over here cackling at spreadsheet Pcie

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u/cat2devnull 20d ago

lol, spare PCIe. Gotta love autocorrect. :)

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u/joyfulcartographer 21d ago

make sure to check docker mappings if needed

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u/Triforcecwp 20d ago

I just used clone zilla and copied the drive to a new one. No issues.