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New ReadyNAS that can use my existing NV+ drives and RETAIN DATA?
Hi, My ReadyNAS NV+ is now out of support and so I'm considering replacing it with another ReadyNAS product. Over the years all of the drives have been replaced, in other words the current drives a...
No. Different platform and different filesystem.
Do you not have a backup of your data?
You should setup the new device and transfer the data over your LAN.
Netgear does offer assistance ( for a fee) in migrating disks directly from older to new readynas devices, but this is generally only necessary when the old device has suffered a hardware failure and is therefore a data recovery service. The procedure requires the user to backup the data once accessed so you would need disk space elsewhere anyway.
Roseville wrote:
My question is whether there is a newer product that will accept and use the existing drives AND FILESYSTEM as-is, retaining the data.
No. Netgear support can help you migrate the data, but you would need external storage to copy the data onto (restoring it later on after the new NAS reformatted the drives).
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