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7/17/2025, 1:57:27 AM
Hey /hsg/, looking for some advice.
I have an off-the-shelf Asustor NAS with four 8TB drives in a RAID 5. I've managed to fill these up, so I'm thinking of turning my desktop PC into a home server and transferring the data over from the NAS. I've never built my own server, so I have a couple questions.
1) Is there any way I can simply move the drives from the Asustor to the new machine and preserve the data?
2) My mobo is a MSI Gaming Plus B550 (picrel). It has 6 SATA ports, so would it be as easy as just acquiring 6 HDDs and installing something like TrueNAS on an M.2 drive? Or are there other things I need to consider?
I have an off-the-shelf Asustor NAS with four 8TB drives in a RAID 5. I've managed to fill these up, so I'm thinking of turning my desktop PC into a home server and transferring the data over from the NAS. I've never built my own server, so I have a couple questions.
1) Is there any way I can simply move the drives from the Asustor to the new machine and preserve the data?
2) My mobo is a MSI Gaming Plus B550 (picrel). It has 6 SATA ports, so would it be as easy as just acquiring 6 HDDs and installing something like TrueNAS on an M.2 drive? Or are there other things I need to consider?
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