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Ready NAS 102 upgrade question
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?
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.
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