Hi all - I have a TS-451+ that I’ve decided to upgrade to a TS-464. I’ve read about updating the firmware without drives, ensuring firmware updates, etc. However, the TS-464 supports m2 SSD drives and I’m wondering if I should consider installing one then loading the core OS and apps on an SSD first…

Correct, as long as one member of this spanning RAID1 group is present, the base OS and log files (minus kernel and bootstrapper stuff on the DOM) remain intact.

Here’s what I’m considering. I have ~30TB of data. I still have my “old” NAS drives that were 4x8TB in a RAID5 previously. In a RAID0 that’s 32TB. So, what if… When I get my new 464 I initialize it with m2 drives and no HDDs Then I install my old 4x8TB HDDs in the 464 and initialize as a RAID0 Ba…

With RAID0, you should definitely care about backups first. Get a TR004 and setup it up with large drives that will fit this data comfortably and back it up. RAID0 will destroy ALL your data upon single drive failure and cannot be expanded by any means (adding disks or swapping disks). So you are …

Agreed. I would never rely on RAID0 for anything important. I did once and lost it all. RAID0 is great and useful but only for stuff you really aren’t worried about. For example, my TS-451 is used solely for QVR Surveillance and recording video from my cameras. I have 4 drives with some being d…

The RAID0 is just for staging the data temporarily. That’s all. I would verify the data was intact before wiping the production array. Then immediately restore.

What I’m mainly concerned with is if I can “move” the RAID0 array from the 464 to the 451 as I’ve described, since the 451 won’t have any other data store on it for the system stuff.

In terms of moving the old disks, as they are currently containing your system volume, they would clash with your new systems new system volume. As mentioned further up, you can try to detach and reattach the volume/pool, this way it might work (if the process is clever enough to check for existing…

In this case, it may be necessary to reconfigure the NAS settings. However, the good news is that data migration will not be required, and your existing files can remain intact. If this approach is acceptable to you, we can provide some reference guides and procedures to assist you. Thank you!

Hi @SteveKo - I’d love any additional info or references you can share that will help! Thanks!

BTW: dealing with large data (if 30TB is large depends to owners view), does not excuse of not having backups. :wink: Regards

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