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Non-btrfs disk in the NAS
any chance of getting a non-raid volume in the ReadyNAS that is NTFS or Ext3/4? Right now, I have to put the drives in crappy external USB2.0 enclosures to get data on and off the NAS. Any hack ...
The use-case is very simple: get a drive to or from another machine, put it the nas and read/write it.
This comes in handy when bringing data from other machines, or when backing up data from the 'big' RAID volume is necessary. External enclosures are clunky, slow and add complexity to the set-up.
OS6 being a debian linux, such trick shouldnt be hard to do, and not even at UI level. Mount the volume in whatever supported FS, paint it yellow, pink or any other exotic colour, block any raid possibility, and there you have it.
But I do understand the drive not to do this, from a marketing and dev priority perspective.
This comes in handy when bringing data from other machines, or when backing up data from the 'big' RAID volume is necessary. External enclosures are clunky, slow and add complexity to the set-up.
OS6 being a debian linux, such trick shouldnt be hard to do, and not even at UI level. Mount the volume in whatever supported FS, paint it yellow, pink or any other exotic colour, block any raid possibility, and there you have it.
But I do understand the drive not to do this, from a marketing and dev priority perspective.
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