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Transplanting drives from RN516 to legacy Pro BE
I know it's unsupported... I already have backups... I have a RN516 running 6.5.1. I also have an old RNDPiForgotTheModelNumber-100 (The old ReadyNAS Pro Business Edition) running 6.5.1. ...
It works. No need to reinstall anything. I did have a bit of network trouble, but that was my own fault for not dropping the ADS connection and NIC teaming modes before switching.
That does lead to one comment for netgear, in regards to the RN516: THANK YOU. Opening up this old ProBE reminded me how much hotter and noisier it is, and how much of a royal PITA those tiny f'ing screws are.
(The heat I'm referring to is HDD heat. I can't fairly compare CPU heat as I switched CPU's in the ProBE...)
garyd9 wrote:
My gut feeling is that it should work - both are using the exact same firmware (6.5.1), and the same platform (x86_64.)...
My gut feeling says it should work also (though perhaps an OS reinstall might be needed).
If you go for it, let us know the outcome.
Hi garyd9,
As long as the Firmware, architecture (processor) are the same, this should work fine. Since the data has been backed up, do this at your own risk.
Kind regards,
BrianL
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