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My EX470's motherboard has died. Am looking for another 470/475 to replace my unit, but in the meantime I found a couple of EX495's on sale on eBay. Am wondring if I can move my HDD's from 470 to 495 and be able to retain my data or will the OS format the HDD's and cause me to lose my data? Appreciate your insights and advice.


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Probably not a straight replace drives.
Even moving all the disks from one server to the other with the same model number.
You could have hickups.

You will most likely need to have a system drive installed on the 490.
Install the os then create your share folders
Then copy over your pool drives to the new server.

So not knowing what you have now.
You probably will need one additional drive to add for the os drive.
Then connect a old pool drive to the pc one at a time and copy them over to the new server.
When that drive is done add it to the pool drive on the new server.
rinse and repeat for the other drives.

If you don't turn on folder duplication on at first you may have room to not add a new blank drive till you are done,
By using the data partition in the bottom bay drive, It depends on what size drives you have now.
and if one drive is not full 100% and you have room for temporary storage elsewhere.

In Lieu of the pc if you have a usb drive dock connected to the server you could add the old pool drive as a backup drive with out formatting and copy it to the pool that way. But it will always show a drive not connected when you unplug it.

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