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Issues moving a 6 disk XRAID set from a deceased Ultra 6 to an RNDP6350
Good day to all, First a little background... I have a ReadyNAS Ultra 6 that has been my backup platform to my production NAS (at home) for about 2 years. Recently it crapped out and I deter...
There is nothing stored in the NAS itself regarding any configuration. All of that is on the drives, so moves with your volume.
You should boot the NAS with a scratch drive and see what OS it's running. If it's 4.2.x, I suspect it is, then you'll need to upgrade to 6.0 using that scratch drive (if I recall your PM correctly and you were running OS6 in the Ultra).
Before you do the conversion, you should upgrade the memory to at least 2GB (the memory from your Ultra6 is compatible) and back up the VPD file (see Backup-and-restore-of-VPD-file-for-legacy-ReadyNAS-running-OS6).
Memory upgrade to 3GB, update of the BIOS, backup of VPD file and upgrade to OS6 on the Pro 6 has completed successfully. Grateful shoutouts go out to Sandshark and StevenB for their great help and providing the information needed to get this upgrade and data recovery done. I've been able to recover ~24TB of backup data with the help of the great people here.
A heartfelt THANK YOU!
Glad to be of help. Now if you want to upgrade the CPU, you can. A Core 2 Duo E7500 can be purchased on eBay quite cheap these days.
Thank you. I already have one on order that should be here in a few days.
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