Hardware change. will I need to format drives?

[Arcturus125]

I currently have a system running HexOS.

The OS is installed on a Samsung 980 Pro 1TB NVME SSD
I have 2 drive pools.
Pool 1 - 2 4TB Ironwolf Pros (mirror)
Pool 2- 2 10TB Ironwolf Pros (mirror)

The system runs on a Intel Core i9-13900K and 128GB DDR4 3600MHz RAM with a 800W power supply.
Yes i know its overkill.

I am now planning to downgrade hardware to something a little cheaper to run. I was thinking of getting a UGREEN NASync DXP4800 Plus.

My main question is this.
If swap out the Ugreen boot drive, for my 980 Pro with HexOS from the old system, and then plug all the drives into the drive bays. will the system detect that these drives are the same and be able to run without reformatting the drives and wiping my data?


I'm hoping that despite the hew hardware, it will detect the 2 already existing pools and not require a reformat

[ubergeek]

So I cant speak on the uGreen HW but I can tell you that if you decide to find normal computer hardware plopping in the boot SSD and hard drives it will take off and run " NOTE depending on the network chipset you have" without any hitch. I am running the same SSD that I started HEXOS "since launch" and have tested about 12 different motherboard cpu combos and the only issue has been a network chipset that the underlying Linux os didnt like.,