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Aspirant

Jan 14, 2021

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ReadyNas Duo v1 hardware upgrade path

Hello everyone. I have been using a readynas duo v1 for the past 12 years or so. It is still great but the transfer speeds leave a lot to be desired.

I have 2x 2TB Western Digital Red drives installed that are redundant.

I would like to pull those drives out and put them into a new nas hardware enclosure that is faster without having to format the disks or backup/restore the data.

I realize this is a super old firmware (RAIDiator 4.1.16 [1.00a043] ) so not sure if this is even possible.

Any pointers would be super helpful.

Thanks!

StephenB
Jan 14, 2021
KDDC wrote:

I would like to pull those drives out and put them into a new nas hardware enclosure that is faster without having to format the disks or backup/restore the data.

I realize this is a super old firmware (RAIDiator 4.1.16 [1.00a043] ) so not sure if this is even possible.

Unfortunately it is not possible.

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 14, 2021
KDDC wrote:

I would like to pull those drives out and put them into a new nas hardware enclosure that is faster without having to format the disks or backup/restore the data.

I realize this is a super old firmware (RAIDiator 4.1.16 [1.00a043] ) so not sure if this is even possible.

Unfortunately it is not possible.
- KDDC
  Aspirant
  Jan 15, 2021
  :-(
  
  Thanks for the answer! Also, is the data on the HD readable by the PC if I install via sata? Or is it in a proprietary raid format?
  - Sandshark
    Sensei - Experienced User
    Jan 15, 2021
    It's not proprietary, but it's also not in a format a PC can read natively. Rlinux for Windows is a free tool that can read them (https://www.r-studio.com/free-linux-recovery/ ). But if the NAS is still working, you could just read the data from the NAS.
    
    On the other hand, depending on what kind of backup plan you have in place, you may want to get new drives for the new NAS and relegate the old one to backup, where speed isn't really a concern.