I have a Promise Smartstor 4300 (listed under legacy products at www.promise.com that has served me well for about three years. Yesterday it was blinking and the HDD indicators all messed up. After a reset I was able to boot it and get in to the web interface. RAID was ok. But eventually the fan lost speed and the NAS died again.
So I am thinking about buying a new NAS, I would love to get my hands on a Synology DS412+ but how would I transfer a working RAID?
As a workaround I might hook up a Promise Fasttrack PCI-Express card I have and connect the drives there to verify a backup to external storage, but my woes may be relevant even there: does a working RAID get properly detected when switching controllers, even within the same brand?
It is a bit typical, one wants a redundant backup and invests in that, but you are still dependent on one tiny chipset that may break any moment. Yes I have plenty more storage but was in the middle of a reconf of it.
So I am thinking about buying a new NAS, I would love to get my hands on a Synology DS412+ but how would I transfer a working RAID?
As a workaround I might hook up a Promise Fasttrack PCI-Express card I have and connect the drives there to verify a backup to external storage, but my woes may be relevant even there: does a working RAID get properly detected when switching controllers, even within the same brand?
It is a bit typical, one wants a redundant backup and invests in that, but you are still dependent on one tiny chipset that may break any moment. Yes I have plenty more storage but was in the middle of a reconf of it.