harddisks

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Hey,I have a question about hard disksI now have a 2 bay nas with 2 disks of 2 terrabites in which is now almost full of data.That's why I bought a new netgear 4 bay nas rn 314 with two hard disks of wd red label 3 terrabitesNow my question I can sum up the 4 hard drives together in my netgear nas rn 314 4 bay without data loss because 2 disks are 2t and 2 disks 3 t&nbsp;&nbsp;

yxue · Answer

Hi,
1. What's your box two bays? RN312? Or RN102? Or other?
2. What's your question?
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Thank you!

pauljacobs · Answer

netgear ready 31244bay

StephenB · Answer

pauljacobs wrote:
netgear ready 3124
4bay

Something is garbled here. &nbsp;We'd like to know the model of your old 2-bay NAS.
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Also, are you wanting the migrate the disks to the new NAS (preserving the data), or are you planning to do a factory reset (starting clean, with no data).
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pauljacobs · Answer

sorry for the misunderstanding&nbsp;My previous nas was a synology ds213 +So i just want to keep my data on the 2terra discs and put them together in my new netgear with 2 new drives of 3terra thus without data loss

StephenB · Answer

pauljacobs wrote:
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My previous nas was a synology ds213 +So i just want to keep my data on the 2terra discs and put them together in my new netgear with 2 new drives of 3terra thus without data loss

Got it.
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The ReadyNAS will need to wipe the Synology disks. &nbsp;Plus there is an expansion constraint - if you start with 3 TB drives, then you won't be able to add 2 TB drives.
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Ideally you would back up the data on the synology first (either to USB or internal disk).
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If the synology is using RAID-1, then you can&nbsp;

remove one disk from the synology - the data should still be there, since it is mirrored.
Insert that disk into the ReadyNAS, and do a factory reset.
Set up the ReadyNAS, and configure shares to hold the Synology data.
Use ReadyNAS Web UI backup jobs to transfer data from the synology to the ReadyNAS. &nbsp;I'd use rsync, but you can use SMB.
Then remove the second disk from the synology, and add it to the array on the ReadyNAS. &nbsp;You will need to select "format" to add it to the array.
Wait for the volume to resync (and say "redundant).
Then insert the first 3 TB drive and wait for resync.
Finally insert the second 3 TB drive and wait for resync

You'll end up with a 7 TB array (~6.3 TiB) with protection from a single disk failure.
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Another option is to keep the synology running, and use it to back up the Netgear.

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