Hello, I plan to migrate from my actual Lenovo mini PC (**i5-7500T/32GB DDR4-RAM**) to a fanless Dell Optiplex 3000 TC (Pentium Silver N6005/32GB...
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Hello,

I plan to migrate from my actual Lenovo mini PC (i5-7500T/32GB DDR4-RAM) to a fanless Dell Optiplex 3000 TC (Pentium Silver N6005/32GB RAM from Lenovo). On Lenovo is running Unraid with HomeAssistant in a VM. The Lenovo has built in 2 SSDs and connected via USB a Zigbee and a Matter dongle. It is used as a small Fileserver and Unraid is running from a inserted SD-Card.

My question is, if it will work when I just swap the SSDs and RAM from Lenovo to Dell, connect the two USB dongles and connect the SD-Card via a USB-connected SD-Card reader to the Dell TC?

Or do I have to reinstall Unraid from scratch? If so will the data on the two SSDs remain and work with the fresh installed Unraid, or do I have to backup data, reformat and restore data?

  • homeassistant_hans
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    4 hours ago

    Ditching the Lenovo mini PC for a Dell Optiplex 3000 TC, eh? What’s the main motivation behind this upgrade? More powerful or quieter operation?