Transfer of Hard Drives

[ralph257]

Is it possible to move hard drives from one Synology to an upgrade fresh system ??

 

[Telos]

Maybe... Models? DSM versions?

 

[ralph257]

Maybe... Models? DSM versions?

DS420j with 4 reds in it

 

[Telos]

DS420j with 4 reds in it

I'm a little confused.

move hard drives from one Synology to an upgrade fresh system

What do you mean by "move".

Move the drives from where to where?

Do you want to entirely wipe the drives of content and upgrade DSM?

 

[ralph257]

I'm a little confused.


What do you mean by "move".

Move the drives from where to where?

Do you want to entirely wipe the drives of content and upgrade DSM?

Actually relocate the 4 drives into a larger Synology 8 bay unit, The DS420j was my first unit, No wiping of drives just a swap, running dsm7 on the 420 now, and I am speaking in the Event I upgrade, not some sort of emergency
thanks Telos for your response

 

[Coop777]

The answer is yes if the new Nas is upgrade compatible and that both models are running the same version of DSM.

 

[Telos]

Got it. Unless Synology begins making larger j-series units, it is less than ideal to migrate drives from a j-series to a non-j-series.

• The migrated volumes will continue to be limited to 16 TB. Otherwise, new volumes are capped at 108 TB
• Migrating j-series pools, carries with it ext4 formatting. That prevents you from using many new, advanced features which require btrfs-formatting.
• Depending on DSM versions in place for each unit, there may be a migration involved. That said, you cannot migrate drives to a lower DSM version release.