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ReadyNAS 2120V2
New to NAS devices. I am currently out of space on the NAS which is running RAID, I would like to replace all the hard drives and keep the old hard drives as archives. Can I do that?
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Kitty3 wrote:
New to NAS devices. I am currently out of space on the NAS which is running RAID, I would like to replace all the hard drives and keep the old hard drives as archives. Can I do that?
Yes but you will need to do a full factory install. If you expand one disk at a time, then the old disks get out of sync with each other, so you can't use them as archives.
Start with a full backup first (data and optionally configuration).
Power down, insert all the new disks and then power up. The NAS will do a fresh install.
Reinstall any apps,
Restore the configuration (either manually or from the config backup
Reload the data.
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