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Migrate Hard Drives from one RN104 to another RN104
I have a new RN104 coming from an RMA for my current RN104. Are there any tricks to swapping the disks from the old one to the new one? According to a couple of threads I read on my search, it appea...
What firmware is currentLy on the 104?
You are correct, but it would be useful to know what firmware was on when the volume was set up, see here:
viewtopic.php?f=154&t=74192
If you set up the volume before 6.1.5, there may be some value in recreating the volume and restoring from backup or setting up with new disks and copying from old to new nas.
Otherwise, these are the steps ( as you have already discovered)
1. Backup.
2. Spare disk into new nas, upgrade firmware to latest. It needs to be the same or a later version.
3. Power down both units. Remove spare disk.
4. Remove disks from old unit and insert into new unit in same slots.
5. Power on new unit.
You are correct, but it would be useful to know what firmware was on when the volume was set up, see here:
viewtopic.php?f=154&t=74192
If you set up the volume before 6.1.5, there may be some value in recreating the volume and restoring from backup or setting up with new disks and copying from old to new nas.
Otherwise, these are the steps ( as you have already discovered)
1. Backup.
2. Spare disk into new nas, upgrade firmware to latest. It needs to be the same or a later version.
3. Power down both units. Remove spare disk.
4. Remove disks from old unit and insert into new unit in same slots.
5. Power on new unit.
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