Upgrading from Nas Duo V1 to RN104

Its best that you back up all of your data from your Duo v1 first to a spare drive or free space in your PC/laptop. Then when you have already the RN104 in hand, you could transfer the data to it.

Kindly check this link: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detai ... os6-nas%3F

I think I have seen some post about success in transferring drives from a legacy unit to the OS6, but I believe they should have an Intel Processor or they should have an x86 platform.

This link above shows that it is not possible(?):

Thank you very much. I missed that when I was digging around on the site. I was looking around for RN104 not realising it was classed as an "OS6 NAS". I thought that was to do with MAC help when I first saw it. lol

Thanks again.

Yup, they don't use the model numbers now since they all have the same OS, so all (or most of) the configuration apply to all models.

You can boot up 4.2.x xraid2 on some OS6 NAS, but you still need to save the data off, and rebuild from scratch. That is intended to help people with failed older NAS - so it doesn't apply to you.

I think your best option is to get new disks for the new NAS, and migrate over the network (copying data via a backup job).

Though if the disks are good, you could migrate one disk to the RN104 (which will then be rebuilt), and then copy the data over the network. Then remove the second disk, and add it to the RN104 array. If anything goes wrong you can lose data though, because you lose redundancy when you migrate the first disk.

Though [lecture]you really ought to have a backup strategy in place anyway. RAID is not enough to keep your data safe[/lecture]