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Is it possible to use 102 as a caddy + ether and Usb?
Hi and thank you for reading. I did search a little but could see not an answer to this. After experimenting with the 102, I'm finding it a lot more work than I need for my simple requirement. I w...
robbie73-
I agree that the ReadyNAS isn't all that simple. Probably its competitors would create the same issues for you. I don't think the issue is really licensing though. It's because there is a relatively small market for these servers, and there are significant groups of customers that need each of the scenarios. If the market were bigger, there probably would be more segmentation (software for small businesses, etc). But the trend is actually moving in the other direction - OS6 runs on both the home and business ReadyNAS with the same feature set.
Once it is set up, it can/does look like a normal network drive to the PC. But it will take a bit of effort and learning to set it up the way you want.
Anyway, there is no way to turn it into a caddy. There are some USB drive arrays that are basically RAID caddies, but they don't support ethernet.
I agree that the ReadyNAS isn't all that simple. Probably its competitors would create the same issues for you. I don't think the issue is really licensing though. It's because there is a relatively small market for these servers, and there are significant groups of customers that need each of the scenarios. If the market were bigger, there probably would be more segmentation (software for small businesses, etc). But the trend is actually moving in the other direction - OS6 runs on both the home and business ReadyNAS with the same feature set.
Once it is set up, it can/does look like a normal network drive to the PC. But it will take a bit of effort and learning to set it up the way you want.
Anyway, there is no way to turn it into a caddy. There are some USB drive arrays that are basically RAID caddies, but they don't support ethernet.
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