Migrate discs from RNDP400U to RN104

HCL aside, the RN104 is a different platform, and uses a completely different file system. If you were successful it would have wiped the disks.

luckily I have the data on these disks backed up so if they were wiped I am not to worried. what can I do to get these disks to work?

If you are confident of your backed up data, you should be able to do a boot menu factory default which will wipe all data on those disks and install the new os 6 and filesystem.

if you mean you want to retain the data on the disks while using them on the RN104, it is not possible due to the new OS and filesystem (btrs vs the old ext4).

thank you very much for your response. the backup data is on another NAS so I have redundant backup data but I will restore as much as I can to my local drives before I wipe the others.

could you explain how to do a boot menu factory default? currently radar cannot see this NAS as it does not completely boot up.

also, in you opinion, should I opt for the 314 or is the 104 adequate as a file server for a small business? the RNDP400U seemed to work just fine for our needs.

thank you in advance

http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/22891/~/how-do-i-access-the-boot-menu-on-my-readynas-104-or-314%3F

I would go with the 314

thank you for your help and opinion. my current drives should work once they are wiped correct?

kinematic wrote:
...my current drives should work once they are wiped correct?

They likely will work, but if there is an issue, Netgear will deny support if you are using disks off the HCL.

I know they will deny support which is bogus as I bought these drives and the NAS 1.5 yrs ago yet they leave me no option as the NAS I was using has been discontinued. I got the 314 today. I have successfully restored all my data to another 2 TB drive so I will go ahead and give these drives a shot.

can you comment on the Netgear Backup and whether I should just use other software? I am using Genie now and seems to work ok but not thrilled with it.

I back up to my two older NAS, and use Netgear Frontview Backup for that - rsync incremental backups.

For backing up my PCs, I use Acronis TrueImage - which backs up to a network share on the NAS.

You may wish to run idle3-tools or WDIDLE3 on the disks if you haven't already. Though the disks would already have very high load cycle counts if you haven't.

Make sure you keep a regularly update backup. So if something does to wrong you can restore from backup if needed.

Also, if support does refuse to help with a problem you can still seek help here.