Hello, I wonder if anyone can offer a little advice. I've been using Drive Bender for the past decade with a couple home server setups. First with WHS 2011 and now with Windows Server 2019 Datacentre. I switched over to the later when I built a new home server a couple years back and have never really enjoyed the experience. Recently for the life of me I can't get it to share my pooled drive over my home network to my other PCs and plus the fact Drive Bender is no longer supported, I'm considering a change.
My Server specs:
10th gen i3
16gb ram
Lsi SAS card
8 assorted hdds = 42tb
256gb m.2 boot drive
Use case:
Plex Server
Bittorrent
Home backups
Valheim server
My question is how difficult would it be to switch over to something like TrueNas with out building a new rig? I guess it won't be able to read my existing drives as a single pooled one. But would I be able to copy over my files one drive at a time adding them to a new pool as I go.
Alternatively I'm considering sticking with Windows but doing a fresh install of Windows 11 Pro, that way I could easily repool my Drive Bender pool and convert to DrivePool. (Or even stick with DB, as it's been pretty solid for me use case so far... Is this dumb?) How does w11 holdup as a headless server?