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Replacing readyNAS 3200
I am running a readyNAS 3200 system with 12 1TB hard drives. This is the primary storage device for medical data in one area of our hospital (i.e. holds raw data from some medical devices). The que...
alangstein_QMC wrote:
Would I be able to move the hard drives from the 3200 to a newer diskless 12 bay NAS device (such as a RR3312) to recover the data? What other options would exist for recovering the data?
There is a guide here that would help: https://kb.netgear.com/29957/ReadyNAS-Migrating-disks-from-RAIDiator-4-2-to-ReadyNAS-OS-6-x86?cid=wmt_netgear_organic
You can't directly migrate drive to OS 6, but you can boot the OS-6 NAS with the OS-4 drives in place as a read-only volume. Then you can copy off the data to another device.
FWIW, if you can budget ~$2000 you could get an RN526x with 3x6TB drives and use that as a backup device for the R3200. That would significantly reduce the down time if the main NAS were to fail.
alangstein_QMC wrote:
Would I be able to move the hard drives from the 3200 to a newer diskless 12 bay NAS device (such as a RR3312) to recover the data? What other options would exist for recovering the data?
There is a guide here that would help: https://kb.netgear.com/29957/ReadyNAS-Migrating-disks-from-RAIDiator-4-2-to-ReadyNAS-OS-6-x86?cid=wmt_netgear_organic
You can't directly migrate drive to OS 6, but you can boot the OS-6 NAS with the OS-4 drives in place as a read-only volume. Then you can copy off the data to another device.
FWIW, if you can budget ~$2000 you could get an RN526x with 3x6TB drives and use that as a backup device for the R3200. That would significantly reduce the down time if the main NAS were to fail.
Thank you very much, this is very helpful.
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