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RNDP600E Died - Can I buy a new model and drop in drives?
OK - So I upgraded my RNDP600E to the latest firmware - been working great! Until it died. Probably powersupply, but could be mobo and I don't want to bother troubleshooting to replace parts. C...
When i say latest firmware, i mean the latest generation firmware - followed the "unsupported" method of putting the new gen firmware on old gen hardware.
jackleman wrote:
When i say latest firmware, i mean the latest generation firmware - followed the "unsupported" method of putting the new gen firmware on old gen hardware.
Generally it's best just to give actual version.
That would be 4.2.31, correct?
jackleman wrote:
Can I buy a newer gen (maybe rackmount) and just drop in my drives to get everything back?
Assuming that the array is healthy, you can mount it in a new OS6 x86 NAS. That mount is temporary (read-only) so you will need backup storage so you can copy your data off.
https://kb.netgear.com/29957/ReadyNAS-Migrating-disks-from-RAIDiator-4-2-to-ReadyNAS-OS-6-x86
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