I currently have a working Xpenology unit that I have had for a while now running DSM 6.1.7 using Jun's 1.02b loader (DS3615xs) and the following hardware;
Intel Core i3-4130
8GB RAM
H81M Motherboard (can't remember the exact one now) with an additional SATA card
5x 2TB Hard Drives
My issue is that I am running out of space. I have managed to acquire 4x 6TB drives that I want to move my data onto (this should give me ~18TB of space compared to current ~8TB). But I am aware that you cannot downsize a RAID array in DSM (from 5 disks down to 4). Over the years I have configured the NAS exactly how I want it and I have many apps, Docker containers etc configured working well. I don't really want to lose any of this config!
What is going to be the best way to deal with this? I've seen that Synology now have a migration tool (Migration Assistant) that is only available on DSM 6.2, but will that do a 100% mirror of my current setup to the new? I can easily set up the hardware on a workbench with another motherboard, CPU, RAM etc to do this.
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mattyjasper
Hi all,
I currently have a working Xpenology unit that I have had for a while now running DSM 6.1.7 using Jun's 1.02b loader (DS3615xs) and the following hardware;
Intel Core i3-4130
8GB RAM
H81M Motherboard (can't remember the exact one now) with an additional SATA card
5x 2TB Hard Drives
My issue is that I am running out of space. I have managed to acquire 4x 6TB drives that I want to move my data onto (this should give me ~18TB of space compared to current ~8TB). But I am aware that you cannot downsize a RAID array in DSM (from 5 disks down to 4). Over the years I have configured the NAS exactly how I want it and I have many apps, Docker containers etc configured working well. I don't really want to lose any of this config!
What is going to be the best way to deal with this? I've seen that Synology now have a migration tool (Migration Assistant) that is only available on DSM 6.2, but will that do a 100% mirror of my current setup to the new? I can easily set up the hardware on a workbench with another motherboard, CPU, RAM etc to do this.
Any assistance welcomed! :)
Thanks,
Matt
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