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kmmcd
Nov 01, 2025Aspirant
New NAS & Giving Up X-RAID
In researching my possible replacement for my RN424 (which is fully operational, just no longer supported), I have come to appreciate the benefits of X-RAID. While I am technically competent in many ...
kmmcd
Nov 02, 2025Aspirant
Thank you for your reply; I now understand that my system has one "volume." However, I have four "shares," and each of those shares are mapped to a separate drive letter in Windows (e.g. drives F, G, H, I). Is there an equivalent concept in other vendors' NAS?
I have not come across the concept of "shares," or individually mappable drive partitions, in reviewing the Asustor documentation.
StephenB
Nov 02, 2025Guru - Experienced User
kmmcd wrote:However, I have four "shares," and each of those shares are mapped to a separate drive letter in Windows (e.g. drives F, G, H, I)
ReadyNAS doesn't map shares to drive letters on its own. You set that up yourself in Windows at some point.
kmmcd wrote:
I have not come across the concept of "shares," or individually mappable drive partitions, in reviewing the Asustor documentation.
"Share" is short for "Shared Folder", which is the term they use in their user manual. Maybe start with the section on page 83.
- https://downloadgb.asustor.com/download/docs/User_Guide/ADM50/ASUSTOR_NAS_USER_GUIDE_ENU_5.0.0.0920.pdf
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