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SisyphusBond
Oct 12, 2015Aspirant
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 u...
BrianL2
Oct 12, 2015NETGEAR Employee Retired
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
StephenB
Oct 13, 2015Guru - Experienced User
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?
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