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Can I move my hard drive from a RN102 to a RN312 and keep all the contents?
I'm not sure if the title is quite clear on what I mean, but I didn't want to get too wordy.
I've got a RN102 with a 4TB drive in that is fairly full (about 75%). I've just bought a RN312 as an upgrade, and wondered if I can simply move the hard drive over and keep all the data somehow, without having to buy another hard drive as an intermediate storage?
I realise it might be a long shot, but as the main difference that I could see was just the processor I thought it might be worth checking.
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Hi SisyphusBond,
Welcome to the community!
This can be done and you're right about the processor difference between RN102 and RN312. Migrating or moving the disks is possible just ensure that you have the same firmware version on both or newer on the RN312 chassis.
Let me know if you have further questions.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
BrianL2 wrote:
The only way is to have your all data backed up somewhere, insert the drives to the new RN312 and perform factory reset. You're right about the processor difference between them. Migrating or moving the disks is not possible.
Actually it is supposed to work (disk migration from RN100 to RN300 or better). Was this feature deprecated?
This feature was not deprecated.
When you take your disks from RN100 and place them into RN300, during boot, the chassis acknowledges that the disks came from a different architecture and it will update the files to the chassis version. Make sure your chassis are on the same version, or the RN300 is on the latest and the RN100 is on a version lower than the RN300, so it will do an update.
- Does this updating take a while? I tried it yesterday and the 312 just flashed its power LED until I gave up after 10 minutes or so.
Hi SisyphusBond,
I suggest you leave it until the LED becomes stable. I couldn't tell how long but the migration should be flawless between these models.
Let me know if you have further question.
Kind regards,
BrianL
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