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RN104 USB 3.0
May seem a daft question, but what can the USB 3.0 ports be used for? What can it be connected to & for what purpose?
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- Storage devices and UPS devices.
- Does this mean I can attach a portable drive (USB 3.0) and copy from the portable drive to a share on the NAS? If so how do I do this?
- Connect the USB drive and run e.g. a backup job to copy the files to your NAS.
- They basically serve the same purpose than on a PC/MAC.
You can connect storage devices on it (for backup or restore), you can plug UPS (to monitor it and I think you can shutdown the NAS when needed). That's what supported on the web interface. They are standard USB3 ports so I guess you could charge a phone on that too, although I'm not sure how the NAS will react to that...
They also can be used to reinstall the OS from an USB key and I think they are used to plug an USB token for encryption.
You could achieve pretty much anything a PC with linux can do with USB by modifying the Debian running the NAS but it's NOT advised at all. - Many thanks for the feedback, I'll have a play!
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