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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...)
It should work. Both are x86.
In my opinion though, an OS Reinstall is exactly the thing to avoid. I never tried it, but from my understanding OS Reinstall extracts some files from the flash to the OS volume. Both OS being completely different, you might completely kill the OS.
But HDDs from OS4 x86 into an OS6 x86 chassis works fine, so other way should be ok too ;)
In my opinion though, an OS Reinstall is exactly the thing to avoid. I never tried it, but from my understanding OS Reinstall extracts some files from the flash to the OS volume. Both OS being completely different, you might completely kill the OS.
But HDDs from OS4 x86 into an OS6 x86 chassis works fine, so other way should be ok too ;)
they're both x86 running 6.5.1. OS reinstall should effectively do nothing. I'll be trying this tonight or tomorrow morning...
omicron_persei8 wrote:
In my opinion though, an OS Reinstall is exactly the thing to avoid. I never tried it, but from my understanding OS Reinstall extracts some files from the flash to the OS volume. Both OS being completely different, you might completely kill the OS.When you convert a legacy x86 NAS to OS6, part of the process installs OS 6 on the flash. So the OS aren't diffferent.
But I wasn't completely certain if the firmware install/reinstall includes any device-specific drivers - that was why I suggested that an OS reinstall might be needed. It's useful to confirm it was not.
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