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Moving drives from RNDP6350-100NAS to Mordern RN626x/RN526x series?
We've had an old RNDP6350-100 kicking around for YEARS. She's been a great little workhorse and has been happily churning along under a desk without incident. However yesterday as people were moving things around a soda got knocked off a desk and exploded. 20 seconds later the pop of a breaker and some ozone. After a little sluething it seems like some of that soda made its way into the power supply of the pioneer and blew it. A cursory survey of the mainboard, backplane and drive bays looks clean but the power supply won't spin up and there is some sparking to be heard.
Now we've been discussing upgrading it for a few years, it's certainly past it's assumed shelf life, they no longer offer firmware upgrades for the unit etc. so not really sad. HOWEVER it does contain a lot of data that we need. So, we'll probably put in the order for the replacement 626/526 at some point this weekend/monday. But I'm wondering if I can just pop these drives into the new unit (in order) or if I should also go hunting for a replacement power supply and, finger's crossed, get this old pioneer limping so that we can do a network transfer of all the data.
Thoughts?
So I'm wondering, is there any reason i just cant pull the drives from this unit and stick it into a new 626/526
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Hi dreamless,
Welcome to the Community!
The RN526x and the RN626x already have a different operating system so simply moving the disks from the RNDP6350 to the RN526X/626x will not work. You will need to do additional steps to recover the volume from the legacy NAS to the newer one.
You may check this article for the detailed steps.
Regards,
If you have a spare standard ATX supply (or can "borrow" one from a PC), it can be connected externally to power up the NAS and recover the data (to a new ReadyNAS or where ever). Since you'll be runing it a while, it is best to seal the gaps that will be left because of the power cords with masking tape or sonething to insure proper cooling of the drives.
BTW, the supply is an SFX format, and there are a few compatible replacements available. Even though the otiginal is rated at 300W, I recommend at least 350W because the original had more 12V available than typical 300W ones. You'll likely need a 6" 24-pin ATV extension cable and may need to move one of more of the 4-pin Molex connectors from the old to the new to get the needed three.
dreamless wrote:
Now we've been discussing upgrading it for a few years, it's certainly past it's assumed shelf life, they no longer offer firmware upgrades for the unit etc. so not really sad.
If you replace the supply (and the unit works), then it can be converted to run OS-6. Netgear won't support it, but many folks here have done it.
Perhaps replace the NAS, and then look into repurposing the Pro as a backup?
dreamless wrote:
So I'm wondering, is there any reason i just cant pull the drives from this unit and stick it into a new 626/526
JohnCM_S sent you the link for this. The net is that you can temporarily mount the drives in the RN626/RN526 as read-only, so you can extract the data. If you have a current backup there isn't any point to doing that, but if you don't, then that will let you extract the data.
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