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Migrate ReadyNAS Pro 6 to ReadyNAS 526X? Questions: Diskless? Easiest reliable migration approach?
I have a ReadyNAS Pro 6 with 6 1TB drives and will need to upgrade. Since I'm running out of space and this unit is EOL it seems time to move on. I'm thinking I should get a ReadyNAS 526X. I'm thi...
Hi, per your message:
"Your pro has plenty of headroom, you could certainly upgrade the drives in it. Though it won't expand more than 8 TiB from the original volume configuration w/o a factory reset, you could certainly back up the data, install 6x4TB, and do a factory reset."
So can you help me explore just a disk upgrade on the pro 6. I've got 6x1TB w/ XRAID2. If I do an upgrade to this box, I'd like to do a disk by disk swap, without needing to backup existing data. What is max size I could go to? 6x3TB or 6x4TB? Thanks
If your original factory install was 6x1TB, then it could expand to a 13 TB volume. So if that's the case, you could go with 5x3TB+1TB.
But if you started with 1x1TB, then the ceiling would be 9 TB, and you'd be limited to 3x3TB+3x1TB
The most flexible approach is to switch to OS-6 (although it does require a factory reset). Then you have no known expansion limits.
If you have no backup strategy in place, then I'd suggest getting the 526x with new disks, and then re-purposing the pro as a backup NAS. You could then increase its capacity over time (shifting to OS 6 when/if expansion fails). That's what I'm doing myself.
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