Long time lurker, first time poster. Here's the situation: I have two older TeraStation Pro II - TS-HGL/R5 2TB units. One has been in daily use for a long time, and works fine -- stock firmware, raid 5. The other one I put in storage a couple of years ago because I didn't need the capacity after finishing up the project I bought it for, but now I'd like to put it into service. However, when I put it in storage I wrote the password on a post-it note on the side of the unit, and now the note is missing. Yeah, I know, embarassing. However, there's no data on the thing, so no big loss, I just need to get access to it and restore it to stock.
Anyway, I looked into the methods people have tried for rooting these units, and it all looks...not fun. Here's my thought: what if I just pulled all the drives from the old unit, reformatted them (not a problem, I have plenty of single drive enclosures laying around), and then one by one pulled the drives from the functional unit and popped in the reformatted drives. So pull drive 1, let it rebuild the array as though drive 1 had failed and been replaced, then repeat for drives 2-4. At the end the functional unit will be full of the new drives and has all the same data it started with, and then I can plug the original drives into the old unit and it should spin up without issue.
So, any chance this will actually work? Does any part of the config live on the unit itself, or does the drive array contain information specific to the Buffalo unit it came out of? My guess from looking at the other rooting options is that this should work, but I could be totally wrong.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I disabled the hardware password reset when I initially set the unit up :(