I just installed a 3 drive RAIDZ in my small home server to replace my old drives. But I don’t have enough SATA ports to also connect my old drives because the 4th SATA port is blocked when using a M.2 SSD, which I do as my boot drive. So I can’t transfer around 10 TB of files from my old drives to the ZFS pool. I have an external USB connector, but it’s really slow or I could boot from an USB stick, install ZFS and use all 4 SATA ports to transfer the files. I also have another PC to put the old drives in, but it would be quite a hassle.
Do you have any idea what would be the best solution to this?

  • Helmaar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Maybe you could try Syncthing? It’s pretty fast over a local network and can do the job fairly well.

      • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        That would take 22 hours under ideal conditions on a 1gbit connection. If you copy files and not block data it’ll probably take 24h or more. Not fun.