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Reusing a ReadyNAS disk in another ReadyNAS
Hello -
I removed a HDD (WD141KFGX) from a RN316 that was in excellent condition and I want to use it in a OS6 Pro Pioneer. Is there anything that I should do like reformat the drive before hotswapping it into the Pro Pioneer so it rebuilds the same as if it were a brand new disk? I already have one of those 14TB disks in position #1 in the Pro Pioneer and the other five are 4TB drives.
I'm asking out of caution, wondering if the Pioneer might determine that the disk has OS6 formatting on it and rebuild anew.
My plan is to add 16TB disks into the RN316 and 14TB disks in the Pro Pioneer as my data volumes increase.
Thanks, Ralph
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You can remove the partitions before adding it to the new NAS. You can do that with Windows Disk Manager (just select and delete every "volume" it shows).
I also suggest hot-inserting the disk - then the NAS sees the insertion event, which ought to eliminate any chance that it will think the disk might be part of the existing NAS volume. If you don't remove the partitions, you will need to format the disk in the NAS before it can be added to the volume.
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