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New ReadyNas 312/314/316?
I currently own a ReadyNas 4 Bay ultra and absolutely love the unit. I would like to upgrade this to a 6 unit NAS. However, I hear that this March 18th new upgraded units will be coming out. Is thi...
For recovering data even though unsupported running the new OS on the Pro would be an option worth considering if you need it. Assuming the array is fine you shouldn't encounter many difficulties migrating an array and backing up the data. However considering some of the new ReadyNAS OS models have 5 year warranties by the time the new models are out of warranty your Pro units would be very old, well out of warranty and may have even failed themselves by then.
If at some point in the future you couldn't find a working unit to migrate the data from a failed Pro or a ReadyNAS OS model you could connect the disks up to an ordinary Linux PC to recover data. Just need to install mdadm, lvm2 (for 4.2.x) using apt-get (if they are not already on the system) and use a handful of commands to mount the array. The commands are a bit different for 4.2.x versus 6.0.x (6.0.x is actually a bit simpler). You have plenty of options to recover your client's data should you need them.
As you have mentioned you could buy a second hand unit as a spare (no support from NetGear for that, but the community here may be able to help) or possibly get one from a client (if they upgrade to a newer system and no longer want the Pro Series unit).
You should be able to get some support for booting an array running the old OS on new systems for the purposes solely of recovering your data (after all eventually - probably still years away - they will need to start replacing failed Pros under warranty via RMA with new models like they have replaced some failed NVX units with Pro 4s). After backing up the data you could then do a factory default and restore the data from backup onto the new OS.
If at some point in the future you couldn't find a working unit to migrate the data from a failed Pro or a ReadyNAS OS model you could connect the disks up to an ordinary Linux PC to recover data. Just need to install mdadm, lvm2 (for 4.2.x) using apt-get (if they are not already on the system) and use a handful of commands to mount the array. The commands are a bit different for 4.2.x versus 6.0.x (6.0.x is actually a bit simpler). You have plenty of options to recover your client's data should you need them.
As you have mentioned you could buy a second hand unit as a spare (no support from NetGear for that, but the community here may be able to help) or possibly get one from a client (if they upgrade to a newer system and no longer want the Pro Series unit).
You should be able to get some support for booting an array running the old OS on new systems for the purposes solely of recovering your data (after all eventually - probably still years away - they will need to start replacing failed Pros under warranty via RMA with new models like they have replaced some failed NVX units with Pro 4s). After backing up the data you could then do a factory default and restore the data from backup onto the new OS.
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