Selling My DS216J

[DarkByD3sign]

Hi all,

I recently upgraded to a new DS920+ device and so my old and now redundant DS216J is no longer needed and I'm looking to sell it on eBay. My question regards device security as I stupidly moved my drives across to the new device in haste without doing a factory reset on the old device. Is DSM stored on DS216J via an internal partition or is it stored on the drives?

If it's stored on the drives then I'm not concerned but if it's stored on the device directly then I'll need to get in and do a factory reset before selling it.

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated.

Dark

 

[Rusty]

Is DSM stored on DS216J via an internal partition or is it stored on the drives?

no

Why sell it? Why not use it as a backup device in some arrangement?

 

[DarkByD3sign]

no

Why sell it? Why not use it as a backup device in some arrangement?

So to clarify, any settings/passwords etc that would have been stored on DSM, won't be there so it is safe to sell?

I genuinely have no need for it. I have more storage than I could possibly need in my new device and it already does everything I require from it. If I can make a little money out of the old one then that can't be a bad thing can it..?!?

 

[Rusty]

So to clarify, any settings/passwords etc that would have been stored on DSM, won't be there so it is safe to sell?

Correct

I genuinely have no need for it. I have more storage than I could possibly need in my new device and it already does everything I require from it. If I can make a little money out of the old one then that can't be a bad thing can it..?!?

not bad indeed, but where are you backing up you nas data to? If you need it backed up that is?

 

[Telos]

So to clarify, any settings/passwords etc that would have been stored on DSM, won't be there so it is safe to sell?

If you don't include the drives as you stated

I stupidly moved my drives across to the new device

Doing so, you retained the 16TB volume cap, and will miss out on all advanced features requiring btrfs formatting, effectively crippling the 920+. Your should rethink this, or just get a 420j.

 

[DarkByD3sign]

If you don't include the drives as you stated

Doing so, you retained the 16TB volume cap, and will miss out on all advanced features requiring btrfs formatting, effectively crippling the 920+. Your should rethink this, or just get a 420j.

Already one step ahead of you. I realised this a month after getting the device and ended up using a spare old PC a friend lent me to remove all data from the drives and reformat them as I required, then put the data back on.

 

[Coop777]

Dark - you didn't clarify but you do have an external backup of the 920+?