Moving HDD Sets Between Identical NAS Models

[wmconey@gmail.com]

So I will soon have a second 451+ to replace a failed 431.

The two units will have different amounts of memory. If the unit with less memory [Unit A] is running apps that would benefit from the greater memory of Unit B, is it possible to just swap the hard drive sets between the units and have everything work? I realize that my static IP addresses are bound to the MAC addresses, so that would need to be swapped as well.

Anything else that could cause an issue?

[dolbyman]

see here for unit migration

https://www.qnap.com/en/nas-migration/

[wmconey@gmail.com]

Not migrating, swapping

[dolbyman]

if the swap happens once .. it's a migration

are we talking about regular back and forth ? (QNAP NAS units are not simple disk enclosures)

[wmconey@gmail.com]

No - NAS A has more memory than NAS B but NAS B is running a memory hungry app. I want to put the NAS B drives with the memory hungry app in NAS A and move NAS a's drives into NAS B.

So a one time switch of the drives between the enclosures. I'm assuming this would be easier than disassembling the enclosures and physically moving the memory sticks.