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Migrating HD to RN214
I have a RN212 and a Qnap 2 disk NAS. Can I migrate the 4 hard drives from those devices into a RN214 and configure them as raid pairs as they were in the origional devices? All 4 drives are 6TB.
Thanks
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dkellner wrote:
I have a RN212 and a Qnap 2 disk NAS. Can I migrate the 4 hard drives from those devices into a RN214 and configure them as raid pairs as they were in the origional devices?
You can migrate from the RN212, but not from the QNAP. So you'll need to offload the data there.
If you want two volumes, you'll
- power down
- migrate the disks from the RN212
- Power up
- Switch to flexraid
- insert the disks from QNAP and create a second RAID-1 volume
- restore the data from the QNAP backup.
Personally I'd use XRAID on the RN214, and end up with 18 TB of storage with single redundancy.
Or get new disks for the new NAS, and repurpose the two old ones for backup. RAID isn't enough to keep your safe, and backup NAS are a convenient way to automate backups. If you do that, I'd get larger disks and keep one slot free on the RN214 for future expansion.
Thank you, I like the idea of putting new drives in the RN214. Since most of this data are movies I converted from my DVDs and Bluerays, it would be a good idea to use the RN214 as the main server and use the other two as backups. It's taken me a couple months to do and It would be a real pain to have to go through all those discs again.
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