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digicammad
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Jun 06, 2018
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Moving drives to a new chassis

Hi   I have an old model ReadyNAS, which only supports SMB1.  Due to the vulnerabilities this is no longer supported in Windows 10 and I am therefore wondering about replacing the chassis with a ...
  • StephenB's avatar
    Jun 06, 2018

    The disk formatting isn't compatible with the OS-6 ReadyNAS that support SMB-3.  If you need to re-use the disks, you will need to offload the files to other storage.

     

    Another option to consider is to get new disks with the new NAS, and then use the NV+ v2 for backup.  You can then disable SMB on the v2 altogether, and just use rsync for the backup jobs.

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