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Alvarolo
Jan 19, 2017Aspirant
Moving drives to a new chassis
We have a RN312 in RAID1 configuration which we use for sharing some folders and also for providing iSCSI drives to a couple of Windows machines. We are thinking of buying another RN312 chassis (with...
- Jan 19, 2017
All your data including your configuration is on the disks so it will remain when moving the disks to another chassis. If the only problem is hardware failure then this should work fine.
However sometimes users mistake an issue on the disks for hardware failure or have both hardware failure and another issue. If there is an issue on the disks it will remain when moving the disks to another chassis.
You should regularly backup your data e.g. using software on the PC the iSCSI initiator is running on.
mdgm-ntgr
Jan 19, 2017NETGEAR Employee Retired
All your data including your configuration is on the disks so it will remain when moving the disks to another chassis. If the only problem is hardware failure then this should work fine.
However sometimes users mistake an issue on the disks for hardware failure or have both hardware failure and another issue. If there is an issue on the disks it will remain when moving the disks to another chassis.
You should regularly backup your data e.g. using software on the PC the iSCSI initiator is running on.
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