Sorry to just join and post but time is kinda short. Can I ask my question here or should I post a new thread? Similar topic and I posted this on the Synology forum, figured I'd try this one as well. copy and pasted.
I think I'm boxed in here and not seeing a solution. Current NAS (DS1513+ and DX513) has 43.5TB storage, 30 TB used.
Have a NIB DS916+ purchased a few years back and I ordered 4 of the 14 TB drives thinking it would give me enough space to run 3 drives and 1 as SHR. I'm not finding a method other than running JBOD on the DS916+. Reasoning is I could be heading back to work overseas and thought I'd just make a backup of my primary NAS but have it all in one bay to save space and shipping costs.
Any options? I tried the lazy way out and shut down primary and pulled one 8TB drive, rebooted and not able to just downsize. Plugged the old drive in, crashed. Rebuilding now. Only thing that works to me is set up the new NAS as 3 drives, one as SHR and start manual migrating stuff over. Tried using Migration Assistant but it said I need more drives to match my old NAS. So close.
How would I manually migrate stuff from one NAS to another? Newbie for the most part, I do enough to just keep it as personal storage and not set up for others to use.
Thanks!