migrating HDD's to new NAS TS-233

[cees timmer]

When I went on Holiday I switched of my TS-219P II. And now it did not react at all to switching on. In other words, it was "gone". I have ordered a new NAS, a TS-233 and according to the tables of QNAP I should be able to place the HDD's in there. However, when I read the user manual for QTS it is full of warnings the all data could be lost at start up. I was using RAID 1 and want to continue so.
Do I realy need to back-up the data befor putting the HDD's in the new NAS?

[dolbyman]

You ALWAYS need backups of your data..a RAID is NOT a backup

[cees timmer]

Thanks but that is not the question. Maybe I should put it this way: does the new NAS when used for the first time format the disks that you put into it?

[dolbyman]

That's what all people said that later on cried the big tears when everything was gone ...

Setup 'should' not overwrite these disks , but it has happened before and it will create a crippled legacy volume

[cees timmer]

Just received the package with the new NAS. Inside a folder telling me "Yes, all data will be deleted".

So end of topic.

[dolbyman]

incorrect, it says QNAP foreign disk will be deleted (as the OS partitions need to be created), the migration guide website shows the steps

https://www.qnap.com/en/nas-migration?o ... ion=ts-233

[cees timmer]

NAS is working correctly now.