Can I take my ReadyNAS drive in Raid1 and plug it straight into new different machine?
- by jacko
I would assume that I can just take my HDD out of my NAS (in raid1 mirror) and plug it into another enclosure and have it work off the bat but I'd like to make sure...
Any ideas?
Edit:
My current setup is a Netgear ReadyNAS in (hardware) raid1. I'm hoping to replace this with a home theatre type PC (possibly running Ubuntu), and would like to migrate my data without having to do a bulk transfer over my network between the 2 machines.
Can anyone confirm the case for the Netgear ReadyNAS?
Edit:
Ok after further reading it seems that the ReadyNAS Duo formats my drive as ext3 in 16k blocks. There are instructions for mounting a drive into a linux box here:
Mounting Sparc-based ReadyNAS Drives in x86-based Linux
There is also talk about a linux image here: ReadyNAS Data Recovery - VMware recovery tool
I'm not sure whether this means they ReadyNAS actually implements software raid under the hood, or what?
So it appears like it IS do-able, but do any of you linux guru's know whether this is viable and whether the fact that they are in raid 1 affect matters?