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NV+ V2, JBOD-disks usable in Windows PC?
Hi, I have just purchased the 4-bay NV+ V2, without disks. Before I put any disks in it, I want to be sure of this:
* If I install the disks as JBOD, will these disks be usable, that is, without reformatting them, if I later move them into a Windows PC?
* I now have one new 3TB disk and one 2TB full of data from a Windows PC (formatted in Windows 7, probably NTFS). If I use JBOD on the NV+, is there any way to use the disk with data on it without reformatting it?
Regards, LandShark
* If I install the disks as JBOD, will these disks be usable, that is, without reformatting them, if I later move them into a Windows PC?
* I now have one new 3TB disk and one 2TB full of data from a Windows PC (formatted in Windows 7, probably NTFS). If I use JBOD on the NV+, is there any way to use the disk with data on it without reformatting it?
Regards, LandShark
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LandShark wrote:
* If I install the disks as JBOD, will these disks be usable, that is, without reformatting them, if I later move them into a Windows PC?
No. Whilst you could recover the data off them, the disks would be formatted with EXT4. There would also be the OS partition (4GB) on each disk.LandShark wrote:
* I now have one new 3TB disk and one 2TB full of data from a Windows PC (formatted in Windows 7, probably NTFS). If I use JBOD on the NV+, is there any way to use the disk with data on it without reformatting it?
No. The NAS needs to format disks you add to it.
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