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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...
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?
kohdee
Oct 13, 2015NETGEAR Expert
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.
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