ReadyNas NV Dead #24190256

No you cannot just move the disks.
If you buy a new readynas with enough bays to hold your disks, then I believe Netgear support will help you to migrate you disks to the new unit. You will need a separate device(s) to backup all the data on the disks during this process.

Yuk :-(

So to do this I would need a new ReadyNAS NV2 and an external disk that would hold my 4 x 2Tb disks (so I assume 6 Tb's). But I wouldn't need new disks for the NV2 ?

No.
If you buy a new readynas ( 104,314,316,516) then Netgear will help you.
They would need you to put your existing disks into the new enclosure, then they would get you to transfer the data onto USB disks or another nas, then you would be able to setup the new nas and restore the data.

You will not be able to do this yourself.

mdgm is also suggesting that you could use multiple backup drives (e.g, two 3 TB USB drives). IMO you need a backup capability anyway. You can of course re-use your old drives, though if they are not on the HCL Netgear will deny support.

The NV+ v2 is also end-of-life, you'd want to get an OS6 unit (RN100, RN300, RN500, ...)

Another option for the transfer is to jury-rig a temporary PSU for the NV+.

Your NV is an evolutionary predecessor to the NV+ (V1). The NV+ v2 is a very different product. You can't migrate your disks to your NV+ v2.

He doesn't have another nas......yet.

vandermerwe wrote:
He doesn't have another nas......yet.

Well his account on our support system shows he has a NV and a NV+ v2.

That's one reason why I wanted to highlight what I did. The NV+ v2 uses a different RAID format to the NV.

The other NAS is full up with 4x3TBs. So that needs to remain running. I was hoping I could buy a new NAS and move across but seems that was too easy :-(

I hope mdgm will back me up here, but the process is quite simple, you just need to supply some backup space ( and of course the new nas)

The RAID format etc. is different will all our new NAS units compared with the Sparc units.

We have a procedure to recover data from disks taken from the NV using our current products (100 series, 300 series etc.) as vandermerwe mentioned. It is important that you don't put the disks from the NV in the new NAS until you are prompted to do so by support.

It is quite simple as vandermerwe indicated.

If the array is fine (usually it is) then hopefully recovery would be straightforward. However if there is a problem with the array (e.g. giving the symptom that the volume won't mount) then we would need to charge for data recovery.

Backups are important. No important data should be stored on a single device.