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Retired_Member

Feb 12, 2016

RN104 connection to PC

I have four hard drives that are listed as compatible. All are 2TB, 1.5TB and 1TB and none of them work. It keeps giving me an error that the disks are dirty and previously used, requiring a format. ...

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Retired_Member

Feb 16, 2016

Thanks for your answers. Not the product I was looking for. I can connect my hard drives to the usb port on the router to do the same as this box. Drobo is better as you only need to format the first hard drive you insert to do the initial setup. Either way I can just buy a Vantec HX4 and connect it to my router and won't have to format any drives.

mdgm-ntgr
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Feb 17, 2016
The performance of USB disks connected to a router likely won't be as good as a proper NAS.

Whether a router would properly detect the drives in the Vantec HX4 or not, is another question. You may/may not find that works.

In the ReadyNAS we use software RAID, have a partition on the disks for the OS, as well one for the data volume.
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Feb 17, 2016
Retired_Member wrote:

...Not the product I was looking for...

If what you wanted was a "caddy" then it is certainly not the product you were looking for. It is a file server that uses linux file systems and software RAID.