Known consequences of hardware upgrade?

TrueNAS General
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I got my TrueNAS 25.10.2.1 - Goldeye running some weeks ago with a 4U rackmount case.
I got some 5.25” bays but the mobo I have, has the PSU connector at the worst place so I am limited to 5x 3.5 bays instead of 10x 3.5 bays.

Novice doing novice things, I didn’t even knew what 5.25” bays was, now I want it everywhere haha

The mobo 6x SATA connectors is also terrible, I should be able to fix that with a HBA.

Now, how likely are things going downhill if I replace the mobo??
Or am I am being forced to build another NAS and sync things over??

There is no wrong or right answer, just what the risks are.

Thank you

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As long as you can install/boot TN and it has a common/known SATA/SAS/nvme controller/ports, TN will work.

Unless migrating to exact same hardware, you will have to reassign IP addresses, etc.

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It feels like there are still risks, to be 100% sure nothing is gonna happen, setting up an entire new NAS and migrate the data appears to be the way to go.

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TrueNAS is hardware agnostic. Changing out the underlying hardware is pretty painless aside from assigning the NIC’s if they are not the same or use a different driver. I’ve migrated to new hardware twice over the years on my current system without issue.

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