RNDU6000 won't boot - faulty PSU or bricked NAS?

mazerj wrote:

Any luck with this? My ReadyNAS Pro 6 blew it's PSU last night (RNDP6000; 2 months out of the 5yr warranty; 6x2TB, XRAID, I can't check radiator version, since it's dead and I foolishly didn't write it down somewhere). I just ordered an empty RN316 -- netgear tech support said I can transfer the drives to this unit and recover everything. I was just wondering if anyone on the forum has actually done this? The netgear FAQ indicates this should be possible as long as the old and new systems have the same architetcture -- the Pro 6 was running an x86 version of radiator, the RN216 has an Atom CPU, which I assume still counts as x86, so this seems like it should work. The unofficial FAQ indicate the new unit has to be running a >= version of RAIDiator as well, which should be case out of the box. I just thought I'd double check on the forum to see if there are any gotchas or things to look out for before I do this (everytime I don't something goes wrong... My plan is to simply pull and label the drives and then slot them into the new RM316 in the same order and boot. Hopefully the new unit will be here tomorrow. After reading the FAQs, I'm going to assume the brand new unit has the latest firmware and mine hasn't been updated in at least a year, so I'm going to skip the "update firmware with spare drive" step, but otherwise follow the guide at http://www.rnasguide.com/2011/03/26/migrating-your-disks-from-one-readynas-to-another-readynas-on-the-same-platform. Anyone see a problem there? Thanks!

You will need Netgear's help to migrate the disks. The RN316 uses 6.2.x firmware, the Pro-6 uses 4.2.x firmware. The file system and the linux versions are completely different. You will also need enough storage to back up your data.

So the short answer is that the faqs you read don't apply to this particular migration, and you can't simply plug in your old disks and have everything work.