Hi, I’m new to this forum, I have a 14 yr old TS-210 NAS that has finally given up the ghost. Unfortunately I don’t know exactly when it did this, but it looks as though the power supply is the issue (something is loose in the socket).
Anyway, given its age, I bought a new TS-216G for my birthday, but I’m not sure if I can just slot the disks straight in? I was not using RAID, so there’s only one disk with all my data on, but I also have a spare that I’d considered setting up RAID 1 for (but never gotten around to).
I think my two options are 1) stick the main disk in and keep everything cross that it seamlessly works, or 2) stick it in an external enclosure and plug that in via USB.
Would either of these options work, or am I going to lose the data?
Many thanks for reading this far!
Best to always check BEFORE you buy
Also make sure you ALWAYS have backups … a RAID is not a backup … backups will save you money (data recovery by expensive professionals) or tears (data loss)
Thank you, yes it’s compatible and yes I checked. My only issue is reading that both qnap units ought to be fully firmware updated, and as I can’t update the old one, bc it no longer works, I am asking if that’sa major issue.
My backups are spread across various cloud and hard drives, but only the nas was all in one place.
Anyway, can you answer points 1 or 2?
Ideally (the ‘new’ NAS should not be on an older FW older for sure)
forget about 1+2
Move both disks over, the NAS will start with the same settings as the old one did.
- Do backups
- Kill the NAS (take out both disks and clear all partitions on them)
- Reinsert the disks and start the NAS fresh with a non legacy volume (as the migration will create a crippled legacy volume)
- Restore the files from backup
That’s very helpful, thank you