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Use 3 disks in a ReadyNAS102
Hello dear community members, new user and not much expert. I have a ReadyNas 102, firmware always updated latest version. I am not interested to have Redundancy and with only 2 bays I wanted t...
- A NAS is not a USB drive. You simply cannot use it this way.
I use that connected to my two bays NAS: ICY BOX IB-366StU3+B.
It works great, and I can swap HDDs (though the PSU suffers from some coil whine).
A NAS is not a USB drive. You simply cannot use it this way.
I use that connected to my two bays NAS: ICY BOX IB-366StU3+B.
It works great, and I can swap HDDs (though the PSU suffers from some coil whine).
I use that connected to my two bays NAS: ICY BOX IB-366StU3+B.
It works great, and I can swap HDDs (though the PSU suffers from some coil whine).
Dear Ludmillo and Omicron,
thanks for the clarification, I will give a try to some enclosure as you suggested.
I am happy to report that after some "panic" shutting down the service for SMB and the one for AFP, when returned on the directories were all there, but now I iwll not messup anymore with the disks.
THanks again for your help
GIanni
I've have a couple external Boxes that plug into USB and I can just take a externa; HDD and pop it in. Really just a SATA connector and a simple frame to hold a bare drive in. It's not a full enclosed case. I can swap HDD's easily. I havn't used them in a while as the computer I built, on the top of it's case there's a SATA slot and I can just slide a bare drive into it and access it that way and when done remove it. It's there out in the open basically. It really comes in handy. Here is a example of what I'm talking about.
HDD in a NAS are meant to stay in the NAS, only to be removed and swapped with another if the drive goes bad or you want to expand to a larger HDD for more space. When you do it, it has to rebuild the data that was on the HDD that you pulled which takes HOURS, maybe in a day or longer depending on how large the HDD is. To me it's like Magic and really the whole reason for having a NAS and using RAID or in the case of ReadyNAS, XRaid. So you can grow in size by adding another HDD or a larger HDD, but you can't shrink back down. Not without formating the HDD's and starting over once again.
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