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USB External HDD
Hi everyone. I hope this fits within this topic. Anyway, I recently upgraded to a Ultra 4+ and using Lion. I also have a Seagate USB external HDD that I am trying to transfer over to the Utra. I c...
Possibly the USB drive isn't formatted to allow the NAS to read it. Since you have the data copied, it may be fine to let things be.
wrz0170 wrote: Thanks :) I went the round about way and hooked up my laptop via ethernet. That did the trick to get the data off the external and onto the NAS in a quick fashion. Unfortunately, I tried the above and could not get it to go. Not sure if it's a read/write thing or not. I will keep plugging away.
BTW, even if you have redundant disk drives in the NAS, you still need to back it up. There are failure modes that can result in loss of data (a couple of weeks ago I had to reload all the data back onto mine). One way to do this is to get a large USB drive which is only for backup.
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