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RN628x Drive bays Numbering
I have ReadyNAS Pro and Pro6. I recently purchased RN628x. The hypothesis is that since all of these units are Intel-based, I should be able to just move my drives from a ReadyNAS Pro running firmw...
Thanks for your reply. You're right . This is not my situation. To be more precise, my 2 questions are:
- If I'm running a ReadyNAS Pro (6 bays) with firmware version 6.8.0, can I simply transfer the drives to a ReadyNAS N628x and everything will continue to work. One member on the forum seems to think it will work but his situation was different
- For ReadyNAS N628x that has 8 bays, since the chasis has no lables for the drive bays, is the top bay or bottom bay "drive bay 1"?
ericchu wrote:
- If I'm running a ReadyNAS Pro (6 bays) with firmware version 6.8.0, can I simply transfer the drives to a ReadyNAS N628x and everything will continue to work. One member on the forum seems to think it will work but his situation was different
It should work (though I haven't done it, I've seen a few other posts where it was successful).
ericchu wrote:
- For ReadyNAS N628x that has 8 bays, since the chasis has no lables for the drive bays, is the top bay or bottom bay "drive bay 1"?
The top is bay 1.
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