Apparently, I was the only one in the universe who didn’t know the DL4100 would eventually put me in the blue blinking light of death, and as much, I can’t access the data from the drives on this unit.
I spoke to many technical people (which I am not), including WD support, and they told me you could buy the EX4100 and just replace the drives from my the DL to the new unit.
New unit arrived today and I’m too afraid to make the transition. I was stupid and only have about 80% of it backed up so I can’t afford to lose anything. I am running a mirrored drive (4x6TB split in half, so really 2X12TB - can remember which one this is.)
Can someone walk me through the steps to do this? I know they have to go in the same slots, but do I put the drives in before ever turning on the EX4100? Then, once turned on, what else do I need to do to be safe? I would hope it would tell me if “you hit yes to this it will format your drives” but I don’t know enough about this stuff to know if it will or not!
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks everyone.
