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Moving disks to new chassis - Power ON or OFF?
Hi. I am just about to attempt moving a disk to a new chassis and retaining settings and data. I've read this topic...
But what is not clear is whether the destination chasis should be powered-off, or on when dropping in the disk that has all my precious data on it.
Can someone answer that for me please?
Thanks!
Great question both of the chasses should be off. Removing disks while the NAS is on (hot swapping) is for replacing a failed disk or disk you no longer wish to use (i.e. don't care about any data on it) with a new disk.
It is advisable where possible to put a scratch disk (disk that will be wiped) into the new NAS, update the firmware to at least as new as what was running on the old unit, verify the update is successful, power down, remove scratch disk and migrate disks across keeping the disk order the same.
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Great question both of the chasses should be off. Removing disks while the NAS is on (hot swapping) is for replacing a failed disk or disk you no longer wish to use (i.e. don't care about any data on it) with a new disk.
It is advisable where possible to put a scratch disk (disk that will be wiped) into the new NAS, update the firmware to at least as new as what was running on the old unit, verify the update is successful, power down, remove scratch disk and migrate disks across keeping the disk order the same.
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