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PMO-Milan
Sep 12, 2016Aspirant
Disk format compatibility
Hello, I own a RadyNAS Ultra 2 which suddanly stopped switching on. I am now ready to purchase a newer model but I also need to find a way to recover the disks content. My question is which one of t...
mdgm-ntgr
Sep 13, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
You would need an x86 unit. See http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29875/~/readynas%3A-migrating-disks-from-raidiator-to-os-6
We've just released the RN526X and RN626X, two new x86 models which would also work.
You would also need somewhere to backup your data to.
- PMO-MilanSep 13, 2016Aspirant
Thank you for your clarification.
In relation to the data backup, as I mentioned I tried to access the data using Linux Reader on a Windows PC but it shows the shared folder as empty/unknown file types. Any suggestion?
Thanks,
Paolo- mdgm-ntgrSep 13, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
It would need to support mdadm RAID, lvm2 and EXT4.
Why not just use a Linux machine?- PMO-MilanSep 13, 2016Aspirant
I don't have a Linux machine setup. By the other posts it looked like I could access the partition even from Windows and I was hoping so. Anyway, I'll see what I can do. Thanks.
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