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I own a Netgear NAS 204 and 214. Both have eSATA connections. Can either or both connect to the below item? External 4 Bay RAID System for 3.5" SATA HDD USB 3.0 from Icy Box IB-RD3640SU3, Manufac...
Sandshark wrote:
The ReadyNAS is designed to have "dumb" drives on eSATA -- it wants to see and control the drive directly. Since your enclosures have both USB and eSATA, I'm not surprised they don't work on ReadyNAS eSATA. The 100 and 200 series also don't have port multiplier functionality on eSATA, so don't support a multi-drive chassis on it (or see only one of the multiple drives). Of course, I'm not sure why you'd want to, anyway, since USB3 is faster.
I have no idea if a ReadyNAS could see the individual drives in a unit like that when not in RAID mode, but it definately couldn't make it's own RAID from them if it did. Using an internal RAID mode of the unit and USB, the NAS should be able to see it (it saw the internal RAID on my similar Drobo box for the short time I used it as one big drive). Of course, if there are any utilities needed to fully utilize it (as there are on the Drobo), that'll create another issue since they're not going to run on the NAS.
For some reason this thread is locked - I can reply, but cannot unlock it for Sandshark, so I am posting on his behalf. JohnCM_S , Marc_V - I've seen this happen a few times over the past few months. Can you follow up with the forum administrator?
Sandshark wrote:
The ReadyNAS is designed to have "dumb" drives on eSATA -- it wants to see and control the drive directly. Since your enclosures have both USB and eSATA, I'm not surprised they don't work on ReadyNAS eSATA. The 100 and 200 series also don't have port multiplier functionality on eSATA, so don't support a multi-drive chassis on it (or see only one of the multiple drives). Of course, I'm not sure why you'd want to, anyway, since USB3 is faster.
I have no idea if a ReadyNAS could see the individual drives in a unit like that when not in RAID mode, but it definately couldn't make it's own RAID from them if it did. Using an internal RAID mode of the unit and USB, the NAS should be able to see it (it saw the internal RAID on my similar Drobo box for the short time I used it as one big drive). Of course, if there are any utilities needed to fully utilize it (as there are on the Drobo), that'll create another issue since they're not going to run on the NAS.
For some reason this thread is locked - I can reply, but cannot unlock it for Sandshark, so I am posting on his behalf. JohnCM_S , Marc_V - I've seen this happen a few times over the past few months. Can you follow up with the forum administrator?
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