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Upgrade 1, upgrade all, or junk it
I have a less than two-year old ReadyNAS (516) with four 4TB drives and all is well. I also have a seven-year old ReadyNAS ProBusiness Edition. I have been using the older model to back up the newer ...
First, I see no reason to take the Pro Business out of service. It's a perfectly fine backup unit. I'd run it until it fails.
everytime wrote:
1. The last time I looked, OS6 was designed for the newer ReadyNASs. Have they changed it to work on the older NASs?
Netgear doesn't support OS6 on 4.2.x systems, but in fact you can switch if you are using pro/ultra. The NVX won't work (because it uses a 32 bit CPU).There is guidance here on the steps.
One benefit is that the expansion limits that apply to OS 4.2 (16 TiB max volume and 8 TiB growth limit) do not apply to OS 6. Another likely benefit for you is that you might be able to use the new ReadyDR backup tools - that depends on whether the OS recognizes your pro business as a "business model".
The drawback is the lack of support. Netgear has fixed platform specific bugs so far (mostly fan related), but there is no guarantee that will continue.
My pro-6 is still running 4.2.x - if I need to do a reset for other reason I'll likely switch. But I see no need to rush it.
everytime wrote:
2. Will the upgrade delete all the data on it?
Yes, the process includes a factory reset.
everytime wrote:
3. Which version of OS6 do I download to do the upgrade?
4. How much time does it take to do the upgrade?
There are two binaries that need to be installed (perhaps a third if your bios is out of date). There are links in other threads.
The bulk of the time is re-building the raid array and restoring all the data from backup. Likely a week of calendar time if you are are running 6x3TB single redundancy.
Coincidences do happen.
I found my old ProBusiness rebooted itself twice today. I don't know what the cause was, though.
I checked the drives while it was running and there's no change in the Reallocated Sector Counts. I don't think that would have anything to do with spontaneous reboots.
Is there a way I can figure out why it rebooted?
For that you could look at the logs perhaps.
Could be a disk problem, maybe a failing PSU or some other hardware problem.
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