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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...)
if you have installed 6.5.1 on your Pro, then OS Reinstall should not be a problem. But is probably not even necessary
Hi garyd9,
Just update this thread once done :)
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
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...)
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