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Move RN312 drives to RN422 - Can it be done
Just purchased a new RN422 diskless storage unit. Can I move the harddrives from my existing RN312 to it so I can keep all my Shares and Files?
Yes you can.
If the firmware in the RN422 flash is newer than what's on the RN312, then it will apply the newer firmware to the disks.
If the firmware in the RN422 flash is older, it will update its flash from the RN312 disks.
Yes you can.
If the firmware in the RN422 flash is newer than what's on the RN312, then it will apply the newer firmware to the disks.
If the firmware in the RN422 flash is older, it will update its flash from the RN312 disks.
With your response I went ahead and tried it. I took one drive out of my old RN312 and installed it in my new RN422 and powered it up. It took a little bit, but it came up with all my shares, data, and old passwords. It even has my old backup jobs ready to run.
Thanks for your assurance it would work, and it did.
Jim Oswald
You could use backup jobs to backup your RN422 to your RN312 going forward if you like.
jboswald wrote:With your response I went ahead and tried it. I took one drive out of my old RN312 and installed it in my new RN422 and powered it up.
Note that if your had two drives in RAID configuratrion, your other drive will no longer be in sync with the first one you moved and you will have to format and re-sync it if you also move it to the new unit. Had you moved the drives together, they would have remained in sync.
I didn't want to burn my bridges - so I only moved one drive to the new unit so if It got reformatted I still had my data on the other drive. After the new unit came up successfully with all my original settings and the 4G of data, I installed a new 6G drive and allowed it to format and syncronize to the new drive. I will now replace the 4G drive with a new 6G drive and will have all my data moved from the old 4G drives to two new 6G drives on the new RN422.
Thanks for your help!
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