I would like to move HDD from mycloud into a new Mycloud EX2 ultra (diskless)

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So, I have a My Cloud 3tb. For the sake of redundancy, I would like to move the drive to a mirrored (RAID 1) array. It seems I could purchase a MyCloud EX2 ultra (the diskless version), purchase an identical WD RED 3TB drive and drop both into the bays and plug it in and I would assume the 2nd drive would then build the mirrored array with all my old data still intact.

Will that work, or is there a step or setting or action I will need to take to make this work?

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I don’t think the firmware for the My Cloud gen1 or gen2 is the same as the EX2 ultra firmware.

3

You would have to remove the hard drive from the single bay My Cloud in enclosure and install it into the EX2 enclosure then partition/format the drive using the EX2 interface. I don’t think you can simply install the hard drive from the single bay with all its data/files and expect it to work in the EX2 device. Different hardware and firmware are used on the EX2.