Due to a power failure, my Synology DS415+ has broken (no longer starts). As it is very old, it is OK for me to buy a new one.
Can I simply plug the 4 HDs from the DS415+ into the DS 920+ and the data is there again? Backup is available, but of course that would be much easier....

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Due to a power failure, my Synology DS415+ has broken (no longer starts). As it is very old, it is OK for me to buy a new one.
Can I simply plug the 4 HDs from the DS415+ into the DS 920+ and the data is there again? Backup is available, but of course that would be much easier....

Accepted Answer

In principle, it should be possible to switch from a DS415+ to a DS920+ by changing the HDs. Synology offers a hard drive migration feature that works with certain Diskstation combinations, such as this one.

Read through the quite detailed tutorial from Synology https://www.synology.com/de-de/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/Backup/How_to_migrate_between_Synology_NAS_DSM_6_0_and_later
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC905FZTAqY

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So, I got the 920, installed the disks and everything works. On start-up, I got the message that disks were installed that were previously in a 415+, I could then choose whether I wanted to migrate or set up again, I chose migrate and after about 15 minutes almost everything was back as before. Accounts, settings etc. were all there.

Your data. Your choice.

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Due to a power failure, my Synology DS415+ has broken (no longer starts). As it is very old, it is OK for me to buy a new one. Can I simply plug the 4 HDs from the DS415+ into the DS 920+ and the data is there again? Backup is available, but of course that would be much easier....