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birdnugg
Aspirant
Aug 19, 2018

Transfer data to ReadyNAS 214 using spare bay

I have an old 2TB Seagate GoFlex Home that died and am upgrading to the ReadyNAS 214.  (The drive itself seems good, but the base is toast.)  The ReadyNAS has 3-3TB drives with the fourth bay open.  ...
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bedlam1
Prodigy
Aug 19, 2018

Another solution may be to install the 2TB drive into a spare Sata Port in your PC and transfer the data across your network using Windows/Mac.

If you have a 1GB network this would be quicker, you also need to have a backup regime in place for your NAS to another device (USB Drive/Cloud etc.)

Edit: The Goflex is either NTFS or Mac OS as far as I can tell

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Aug 19, 2018
bedlam1 wrote:

 

Edit: The Goflex is either NTFS or Mac OS as far as I can tell

The goflex home is actually a small NAS.  I'm guessing the internal drive is formatted as ext, but that's just a guess.

    • StephenB's avatar
      StephenB
      Guru - Experienced User
      Aug 19, 2018

      Interesting choice on Seagate's part.

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