Removing HDD

Posted by: Mr Paws on 13 July 2018

Hi to all, I’m looking to remove the HDD from my old readynas DUO and refit it to a new NAS but I’m worried I may lose my music which is around a thousand albums.

Is it just a case of simply removing it ?

Cheers..

Posted on: 13 July 2018 by TallGuy

Unless you’re putting it in the same type of NAS I’d expect it to be unreadable as there’s no guarantee that different manufacturers use the same formatting method (same interface yes so the plugs will fit). This is based on experience with enterprise level devices - so it may work on consumer/SOHO type devices

Posted on: 13 July 2018 by Xenasys

If you ReadyNas is still working back up your data to another drive or pc then you have the data then move the drives to new nas copy the data.

if new nas wont read old drives, format and copy data from your backup

If old nas is not working and you dont have a backup then there are some good sites on the internet that will help you

Posted on: 13 July 2018 by kend

When I fitted an existing HDD to a new Synology NAS, the first thing that happened was an automatic reformatting of the drive. So as has been said work on the principle that you will loose all data on the drive.

Posted on: 14 July 2018 by Harry

As above. If it's not an identical NAS it will format. And even if it is an identical NAS, it might reformat.

NASs should be populated from back ups. Even when ripping or downloading new music, it gets tagged and put into a backup location before being copied to a NAS. Which is then backed up to another location (but that's going a bit OT).