moving hard drive to a new system

[Steven Jones]

Hi,

It will almost certianly will be OK to move the disk as Linux goes through its own hardware detection while booting.

A desktop as a NAS could use quite a lot of watts and hence $s running 24/7 over the year.  For instance my old box running the TV uses  120~150watts which would be about $300NZD in electricity over the year if left always on.  

My 3 node NAS gluster which is 3 x Dell 990s use 33watts each =  100watts but I dont run it 24/7 only when the ovirt vm cluster is up.

If you have a wifi router it may already have a usb3 port on it and something like an asus 68U uses 10watts = $20NZD / year, way cheaper.


> I am thinking about building a new computer. What I want to do is get a
> 3TB hard drive for my existing computer so I can use it as a movie
> server for the house. I want to take my existing hard drive and put it
> in the new system as is. Will this cause a problem like it does with
> Windows and hose the operating system?