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RN628x Drive bays Numbering
I have ReadyNAS Pro and Pro6. I recently purchased RN628x. The hypothesis is that since all of these units are Intel-based, I should be able to just move my drives from a ReadyNAS Pro running firmware version 6.8.0 to the new RN628x and everything should work fine.
One person on this board responded that they've moved from ReadyNAS Pro to 516 so I'm hopeful. One slight problem is that while the drive bays in the ReadyNAS Pro and Pro6 are labeled 1 thru 6, there's no such labeling on the RN628x. In addition, as far as I can tell, non of the documentation provide any labeling either.
Does anyone know whether the top or bottom bay is bay 1?
Thanks
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ericchu wrote:
I have ReadyNAS Pro and Pro6. I recently purchased RN628x. The hypothesis is that since all of these units are Intel-based, I should be able to just move my drives from a ReadyNAS Pro running firmware version 6.8.0 to the new RN628x and everything should work fine.
If your pro/pro-6 are running 4.2.x firmware, then you CANNOT migrate the drives. The OS and file system are quite different.
You can temporarily mount them as read-only in the 628x, which lets you offload data. But then you need to do a factory reset, which reformats everything. The read-only mount is helpful if the old NAS failed - which doesn't seem to be your situation. https://kb.netgear.com/29957/ReadyNAS-Migrating-disks-from-RAIDiator-4-2-to-ReadyNAS-OS-6-x86
Thanks for your reply. You're right . This is not my situation. To be more precise, my 2 questions are:
- If I'm running a ReadyNAS Pro (6 bays) with firmware version 6.8.0, can I simply transfer the drives to a ReadyNAS N628x and everything will continue to work. One member on the forum seems to think it will work but his situation was different
- For ReadyNAS N628x that has 8 bays, since the chasis has no lables for the drive bays, is the top bay or bottom bay "drive bay 1"?
ericchu wrote:- If I'm running a ReadyNAS Pro (6 bays) with firmware version 6.8.0, can I simply transfer the drives to a ReadyNAS N628x and everything will continue to work. One member on the forum seems to think it will work but his situation was different
It should work (though I haven't done it, I've seen a few other posts where it was successful).
ericchu wrote:- For ReadyNAS N628x that has 8 bays, since the chasis has no lables for the drive bays, is the top bay or bottom bay "drive bay 1"?
The top is bay 1.
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