roamen Posted July 4, 2022 #1 Posted July 4, 2022 (edited) I am planning to buy an old i3 4th gen and some NAS HDD. Supposed my current motherboard and processor died after sometime. How am I to move my old HDD to a newley built PC without loosing data? Edited July 4, 2022 by roamen Quote
0 Peter Suh Posted July 5, 2022 #2 Posted July 5, 2022 The migration of HDD between Synology and Synology only takes place of DSM migration of the system partition. Data partitions are not affected at all. Quote
0 roamen Posted July 5, 2022 Author #3 Posted July 5, 2022 1 minute ago, Peter Suh said: The migration of HDD between Synology and Synology only takes place of DSM migration of the system partition. Data partitions are not affected at all. So, all I need is to move the HDDs to a new PC and with the usb bootloader and I'm good to go? Quote
0 Peter Suh Posted July 5, 2022 #4 Posted July 5, 2022 (edited) 3 minutes ago, roamen said: So, all I need is to move the HDDs to a new PC and with the usb bootloader and I'm good to go? Of course. However, if possible, try the DSM installation first using the newly built Redfill bootloader and a separate new disk. If there are no problems here, you can migrate the disk with the actual data directly. Edited July 5, 2022 by Peter Suh Quote
0 roamen Posted July 5, 2022 Author #5 Posted July 5, 2022 Just now, Peter Suh said: Of course. However, if possible, try the DSM installation first using the newly built Redfill bootloader and a separate disk. If there are no problems here, you can migrate the disk with the actual data directly. Thanks, trying to build my first nas and just wanted to know the future proof of Xpenology. 1 Quote
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I am planning to buy an old i3 4th gen and some NAS HDD.
Supposed my current motherboard and processor died after sometime.
How am I to move my old HDD to a newley built PC without loosing data?
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