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Repurpose a Ready NAS Duo
I set-up a Ready NAS Duo (with a lot of help from the community) a couple of years ago to share files with our children.
The situation has changed now. The twins have now disappeared from the house, now attending college miles away for the next five years.
Their new portables (MSI prestige 14 A10SC) are not connected to the house network.
So I was hoping to repurpose the Ready NAS Duo as a simple external storage unit for my desk computer.
If I unplug the RJ45 network cable and using the USB on the front of the NAS will it show up in the “My PC” section in windows 10???
I will remove the hard disk in order to reformat it before connecting it.
An help most appreciated...
Lionel
Nope, your NAS is a USB host, not a USB device. If there is some reason you don't want it on your network, you can directly connect it to the PC via a second Ethernet port (including a USB to Ethernet adapter), but you won't gain any speed unless there is already some bottleneck on your network. Since there will be no DHCP server on that direct connection, you'll need to set up static IPs on the NAS and PC.
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Nope, your NAS is a USB host, not a USB device. If there is some reason you don't want it on your network, you can directly connect it to the PC via a second Ethernet port (including a USB to Ethernet adapter), but you won't gain any speed unless there is already some bottleneck on your network. Since there will be no DHCP server on that direct connection, you'll need to set up static IPs on the NAS and PC.
Thank you for the quick reply.
The ReadyNas Duo is now fairly old so I think it will be easier to remove the hard disks and connect them internally.
I will replace the Nas with a new one.
Thankyou again for the help...
Lionel
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