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uhlrog
Sep 23, 2020Follower
READYNAS RNDU4000 chassi is dead
My RNDU4000 chassi has died. My discs is well I hope. I found one answer, https://community.netgear.com/t5/New-ReadyNAS-Users-General/Readynas-Ultra-4/m-p/1653605#M17972 There you recommend RN424...
- Sep 23, 2020
uhlrog wrote:
There you recommend RN424 and RN524X. I wonder if it is possible to use RN214 instead?
If you are asking if you can directly mount a volume in a 4.2.x system in an RN214, then the answer is no. That requires an x64 OS-6 NAS (RN300 series or better).
Note this only allows you to temporarily mount the volume (as read-only). You'd then need to offload the data to other storage, and do a full factory install on the new NAS. The disks will be formatted as part of the install (destroying the current files).
https://kb.netgear.com/29957/ReadyNAS-Migrating-disks-from-RAIDiator-4-2-to-ReadyNAS-OS-6-x86
On the other hand, if your Ultra was converted to OS-6, then you could migrate it to an RN214. Though it would be better to migrate it to an x86 NAS (certainly easier if you have apps installed).
uhlrog wrote:
My RNDU4000 chassi has died. My discs is well I hope.
Does it look like the power supply? Or something else?
StephenB
Sep 23, 2020Guru - Experienced User
uhlrog wrote:
There you recommend RN424 and RN524X. I wonder if it is possible to use RN214 instead?
If you are asking if you can directly mount a volume in a 4.2.x system in an RN214, then the answer is no. That requires an x64 OS-6 NAS (RN300 series or better).
Note this only allows you to temporarily mount the volume (as read-only). You'd then need to offload the data to other storage, and do a full factory install on the new NAS. The disks will be formatted as part of the install (destroying the current files).
https://kb.netgear.com/29957/ReadyNAS-Migrating-disks-from-RAIDiator-4-2-to-ReadyNAS-OS-6-x86
On the other hand, if your Ultra was converted to OS-6, then you could migrate it to an RN214. Though it would be better to migrate it to an x86 NAS (certainly easier if you have apps installed).
uhlrog wrote:
My RNDU4000 chassi has died. My discs is well I hope.
Does it look like the power supply? Or something else?
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