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Turning RN104 into an external enclosure
Is there anyway I can turn RN104 into an external NAS enclosure - I would like to populate it with 2TB-4TB NTFS disks with data and share/serve the content on internal LAN? Not interested in RAID - th...
No ReadyNAS uses a proprietary filesystem.
The RN104 uses BTRFS for the data volume and EXT4 on the OS partition.
As NAS units tend to install the OS onto the drives and tend to run a form of Linux, the NTFS filesystem is not suitable for internal drives in the NAS. The NAS needs to partition the disks etc.
The RN104 uses BTRFS for the data volume and EXT4 on the OS partition.
As NAS units tend to install the OS onto the drives and tend to run a form of Linux, the NTFS filesystem is not suitable for internal drives in the NAS. The NAS needs to partition the disks etc.
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