I have been lurking here for a few months trying to get a feeling for OMV and what it can do. I am planing of building me a NAS this sommer to increse my data safety and more importantly my familys data safety. As I am planing to backup inportant data for me and my family (family photos and videos) I really want to do this right the first time and know about the problems I might face and how to fix it. Being the only one interested in computers in the family I can forsee that I have to be able to expand the storage as time goes to keep everyones pics and vids safe so I am trying to choose my components well and rather spend alittle more and get things that last longer.
So my question is, how hard/is it possible to move a raid from between hardware when it is up and running with data on is without big risk?
The plan was to use a IBM M1015 SAS raidcard flashed to IT firmware and mount it in a rackmount case that has hotswap drives with SAS backplates but I am planing on adding that on later as those two items are crazy expencive.
So the plan now is to use the onboard SATA controller on the SuperMicro X9SCL-F in the beginning and hopefully later move the mdadm raid over to the IBM M1015 card/cards. From what I have read this should not be a problem as software raid should not care how the HDDs are connected as long as it can see them. But I am still a little unsure and thinking about if they have to be connected in a special order so the mdadm raid knows which one is which... like does the sda/sdb/sdc.. get connected to each HDD so the raid knows who is who when it is connected to another SATA port or should I maybe physically mark each one so I can plug in one by one and assign them names...
I feel like this long enauf as my first post so I'll stop here...
Thanks