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Ready NAS 102 upgrade question
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Hi Folks,
Owned this little two bay NAS for several years now. It's been great. In fact, I plan to move to a four bay ReadyNAS. Question is, and it may be a dumb one, is it possible to just move the drives to the new unit? Or will they have to be formatted for the new model?
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You can move the disks to a new OS-6 readynas (keeping it powered down). There won't be any data loss, and settings should all be preserved.
The only caveat is that if you switch to an x86 NAS (RN400 - RN600), then you should uninstall your apps before you migrate, since platform-specific apps (like plex) won't migrate seamlessly from Arm (RN100, RN200) to Intel.
Another option is to get new disks for the new NAS, and use the RN102 for backup.
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You can move the disks to a new OS-6 readynas (keeping it powered down). There won't be any data loss, and settings should all be preserved.
The only caveat is that if you switch to an x86 NAS (RN400 - RN600), then you should uninstall your apps before you migrate, since platform-specific apps (like plex) won't migrate seamlessly from Arm (RN100, RN200) to Intel.
Another option is to get new disks for the new NAS, and use the RN102 for backup.