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Aspirant

Jun 15, 2018

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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... https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/Moving-drives-to-a-new-ch...

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mdgm-ntgr
Jun 15, 2018
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.

mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Jun 15, 2018

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.

Spanna
Aspirant
Jun 15, 2018
Thank you very much for the fast response and info!
- Spanna
  Aspirant
  Jun 15, 2018
  I wish I had mentioned this earlier. BUT I am trying to move a disk from a ReadyNAS Duo v1 to a v2. Is that possible? I just tried, and the new v2 home reports "Corrupt root" via RAIDar.
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jun 15, 2018
    Spanna wrote:
    
    I wish I had mentioned this earlier. BUT I am trying to move a disk from a ReadyNAS Duo v1 to a v2. Is that possible? I just tried, and the new v2 home reports "Corrupt root" via RAIDar.
    
    It is not possible, and you are lucky you didnt' lose your data. The v2 is a very different platform (5.3.x firmware instead of 4.1.x; ARM CPU instead of Sparc).
    
    If the duo v1 is not functional, then you can offload the files by connecting the drive to a Windows PC, and using R-linux for Windows ( https://www.r-studio.com/free-linux-recovery/ )