Yesterday my NV+ died. Probably something with the power supply because there is absolutely nothing happening. Since I have it already for years I think this is the perfect moment for an upgrade. The disks are brand new (4x WD red 1TB) and are perfectly in shape. Obviously I will move these disks into the new NAS. Is there a way to do this without loosing the data that is on the disks? I never reckoned with the power supply failing, a lot of the data is backed up but not all, another reason not wanting to loose the data (:()
I never really understood why there wasn't a well defined path for existing owners to migrate/upgrade disk sets without factory reset. Really paints people into corners.
The Sparc devices use hardware accelerated RAID and a different RAID configuration to what is used on newer models. The block size of the volume is 16k (if last factory default was on RAIDiator 4.x). There's also the issue of the dedicated parity disk. If you have three working disks and one is the parity disk, how do you recover from that. Not to mention Flex-RAID using a different RAID configuration to X-RAID. Whilst it would be nice to be able to mount Sparc arrays on the newer models to recover data, getting this to work well for all users arrays is not as simple as you might think. Even then you would need to backup your data, do a factory reset then restore data from backup.
