On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 21:05:24 +0100
"Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@...> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, 8. November 2018 schrieb Baron:
> > My old machine has four HDD, and nearly 2 Tb of data on them.  So I 
> > thought rather than start buying cases for the HDD, I would just get 
> > the two machines to talk to each other, transfer any settings and 
> > carry on from there.
> > 
> > But I have no real Idea how to go about it, hence the question.
> 
> What about opening the machine and plugging in the drives one by one temporarily?
> 
Or, if you don't want to mess with the hardware, your best option for just file 
transfer is probably to mount the old drives to the new machine across the 
network, using NFS or (in a pinch) Samba/CIFS.

E. Liddell