Hi everyone,
I'm currently running OpenWRT on a Western Digital My Book Live (single bay) device, using an 8TB HDD where both the system and data reside.
I'm now planning to move to a My Book Live Duo (2-bay) unit and would like to know the best way to migrate the system and data without losing functionality or files.
From what I have found, the cooling is better in the Duo version (my single reaches 55º degrees or more) and I have a good oportunity of buying it used, cheap, without hard drives.
Here are my key questions:
- Can I simply move the 8TB HDD (with OpenWRT already installed) from the single bay model into the Duo and expect it to boot?
- Does the Duo require both HDD bays to be populated for the system to start? I’ve read reports suggesting boot failure if only one drive is present.
- The OpenWRT image for My Book Live is different from the Duo. Is there a hardware-level difference, or is it mainly a software/bootloader issue?
- Could I prepare a fresh OpenWRT install using the Duo image, then copy over my data and configs from the 8TB disk?
- Has anyone successfully performed this type of migration? If so, are there steps or precautions you’d recommend?
I want to avoid any RAID configuration for now and keep the system running on a single disk, ideally with the option to add a second later for backups.
Any advice or experience is greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.