D-Link DNS-320 to AS5202T Migration

[jraymond4321]

Hi,

I have an old DNS-320 running RAID 1 with 2 5TB Drives, and they have about 3.5TB of data. What would be the process to migrate them to a new diskless AS5202T?

The D-Link is still working.

I don't have any other drives large enough to copy all the data.

Is there a way to move them both to the AS5202T at the same time? Or would I need to move 1 first, and then copy from the old DNS-320? Or some other process?

Thanks in advance.

[Nazar78]

You would need additional drives in the AS5202T, initialize them to be ready to store new data. Then copy over the data from the old NAS to the new using SMB transfer by mapping the old NAS share to the new NAS. Use Asustor's File Explorer to copy them over.

[snapshot]

The AS5202 will reformat any drive that does not come from another Asustor NAS. So the only way to do it is to move one drive to the AS5202, format it as a single drive, copy the data across, move the second drive then expand the single drive to RAID1. There is a risk here of losing your data if the RAID expansion fails. It's also worth considering how old your 5TB drives are and whether it might be better to start with two new drives. Alternatively, an external 4TB or 6TB drive would be a good safety net.