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Title: Move from DNS- 320 to DNS 320L
Post by: dundrinu on March 05, 2013, 06:57:48 AM

I currently own a dns-320 configured with two 1tb drives on RAID1
I would like to upgrade to DNS 320L however will i be able to move the disks into the new 320L enclosure without loosing any data ?

Title: Re: Move from DNS- 320 to DNS 320L
Post by: sbrbot on March 05, 2013, 12:37:10 PM

I'm not sure but I think that 320 uses EXT3 file system while 320L uses EXT4. It does not automatically mean that HDDs from 320 cannot be used in 320L (maybe 320L works fine with disks formatted with EXT3) but there's no guarantee.

Title: Re: Move from DNS- 320 to DNS 320L
Post by: J400uk on July 19, 2013, 04:34:53 PM

Hola, can anyone confirm if this works? Got a DNS-320 sat here with a pair of 1.5TB drives in RAID 1. Want to transfer over to my newly purchased DNS-320L as easily as possible  :)

Title: Re: Move from DNS- 320 to DNS 320L
Post by: JavaLawyer on July 19, 2013, 06:24:18 PM

Quote from: J400uk on July 19, 2013, 04:34:53 PM

Hola, can anyone confirm if this works? Got a DNS-320 sat here with a pair of 1.5TB drives in RAID 1. Want to transfer over to my newly purchased DNS-320L as easily as possible  :)

Regardless of whether this procedure works or not, you should make sure you have a separate physical backup of your data before performing any data migration procedure (if you don't already have one).

Title: Re: Move from DNS- 320 to DNS 320L
Post by: jacom7000 on July 20, 2013, 09:58:09 AM

I asked the same question on the DNS-320 forum and answered it myself several days later when I received the 320L the answer is NO. I tried and the 320L wanted to format my drives, needless to save I didn't let it.

So it looks like I will have to purchase a couple of 3/4TB drive in the near future and copy the lot across which will take many many hours.

Title: Re: Move from DNS- 320 to DNS 320L
Post by: JavaLawyer on July 20, 2013, 11:35:32 AM

Quote from: jacom7000 on July 20, 2013, 09:58:09 AM

I asked the same question on the DNS-320 forum and answered it myself several days later when I received the 320L the answer is NO. I tried and the 320L wanted to format my drives, needless to save I didn't let it.

So it looks like I will have to purchase a couple of 3/4TB drive in the near future and copy the lot across which will take many many hours.

There is high degree of cross compatibility between ShareCenter models (i.e. not all models) for HDDs configured as Standard Volumes, but RAID and JBOD configurations are almost never backwards compatible due to evolving changes to the filesystem.