Moving Drives from TS-1079 Pro to TS-1270U-RP

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Moving Drives from TS-1079 Pro to TS-1270U-RP

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I have a RAID 5 array of 10 drives on my TS-1079 Pro.

I would like to move all 10 drives to a new TS-1270U-RP.

It's my understanding that as long as the motherboard of the new NAS (in this case, the TS-1270U-RP) uses the same chipset as the original NAS, then the data will remain intact in the new RAID 5.

Is this true? Can I simply move the drives from the TS-1079 Pro to the TS-1270U-RP (in order, of course) and retain the data? Or is it not that simple?
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Re: Moving Drives from TS-1079 Pro to TS-1270U-RP

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rsmedia wrote:I have a RAID 5 array of 10 drives on my TS-1079 Pro.

I would like to move all 10 drives to a new TS-1270U-RP.

It's my understanding that as long as the motherboard of the new NAS (in this case, the TS-1270U-RP) uses the same chipset as the original NAS, then the data will remain intact in the new RAID 5.

Is this true? Can I simply move the drives from the TS-1079 Pro to the TS-1270U-RP (in order, of course) and retain the data? Or is it not that simple?
Moving the 10 Drives over is that easy. Check out the Migrating from Old NAS section of the fine manual.

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Re: Moving Drives from TS-1079 Pro to TS-1270U-RP

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Note that with 10-12 drives the chance of failing 1 or 2 drives at the same time is 10-12 times higher than with single disk. That can be less than one year. I would recommend you using RAID6 or 2xRAID5 (and maybe 3xRAID5) with new storage pools feature.
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