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RDNU2000 - use of USB
I have a 10 yr old dual bay ReadyNAS that served me well the years when in operation. No probles at all.
Now I want to resurrect it as a storage device for a server I will be using for hosting my own web site.
I want to connect to a dedicated PC using USB. However, I have fund no documentation of the functionlity of the USB ports.
And when cabling USB directly to the PC, the USB device is not recocnized. I am runnng Win10 on an ASUS miniPC (with 100 GB SSD).
Petter
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Petter-Server wrote:
I have a 10 yr old dual bay ReadyNAS that served me well the years when in operation. No probles at all.
Now I want to resurrect it as a storage device for a server I will be using for hosting my own web site.
I want to connect to a dedicated PC using USB.
That can't be done, it needs to be connected via ethernet.
The NAS USB ports can be used for connecting USB drives and/or a UPS. But you can't use them to connect to a PC.
But you can use a USB to Ethernet adapter on your PC and connect that directly to the NAS. Since there will be no DHCP active on that connection, you'll need to manually assign static IPs to both.
Sandshark wrote:
But you can use a USB to Ethernet adapter on your PC and connect that directly to the NAS.
Yes. Or purchase a second internal NIC if it has a tower chassis.
Though there is no performance advantage, so I recommend simply connecting the NAS to the router (getting a small gigabit switch if that is needed).
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