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Pull drives, into newer ReadyNAS
Hello ReadyNAS users, My hard drives out live the power supplies on my NASes... I have 2 ReadyNAS NV+ (RND4000). I bought one, the power supply failed under warranty and I moved the drives into ...
No. The NV+ v2 uses an arm processor, your v1 uses a sparc processor. The operating system (stored on the disks) is not compatible. If you try this, you will probably end up with wiped disk drives (a empty data volume).
regan wrote: Is it possible to pull the RAIDed drives out and put them into a newer black or dark grey ReadyNASes and expect them to work?
ext. Though you do need to deal with the RAID as well. There is a guide on mounting the disks in an x86 linux system here: http://home.bott.ca/webserver/?p=306
regan wrote: If I end up stuck with drives and nothing to read them, what is the file system on the ReadyNAS..? zfs..? xfs..? ext(1,2,3)..? something proprietary...?
That is better than attempting to recover data after failure. Even if the drives are healthy, failures can corrupt the file system.
regan wrote: I am attempting several other backup solutions for my data also (rsync, USB drives, etc)...
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