Only one HDD recognized by Readyshare in a 4 slots HDD docking station

[nick_tru]

I have a 4 slots HDD docking station and installed 2 HDD. Each HDD has 2 partitions. It works fine while connect to a laptop. All 4 partitions can be accessed.

But when I connect the docking station to R6300, ReadyShare detects 2 partitions of 1 HDD only. I try to remove the HDD detected, the other one can be detected eventually.

[VE6CGX · Accepted solution]

That is not a NAS which has it's own OS. That is attached USB device to router. If you want NAS, buy a real one like Synology, QNAP, etc. The multi bay enclosure has  compability problem. In the past I played with them like you and finally I realized, real NAS is the way to go. I have a 4 bay Synology NAS which does everything I want. Even if the USB attached drives work, they are slow, unstable at best.

[William10a]

You just found the one of the limits that usb port of he router has one drive to one usb port the readyshare and router form a very poor nas server.

[michaelkenward]

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@nick_tru wrote:
But when I connect the docking station to R6300, ReadyShare detects 2 partitions of 1 HDD only.

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ReadyShare is not designed to work with docking stations.

[VE6CGX · Accepted solution]

That is not a NAS which has it's own OS. That is attached USB device to router. If you want NAS, buy a real one like Synology, QNAP, etc. The multi bay enclosure has  compability problem. In the past I played with them like you and finally I realized, real NAS is the way to go. I have a 4 bay Synology NAS which does everything I want. Even if the USB attached drives work, they are slow, unstable at best.

[michaelkenward]

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@VE6CGX wrote:

Even if the USB attached drives work, they are slow, unstable at best.

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And you have to be careful to unplug USB devices correctly if you want to avoid data corruption.

[nick_tru]

Thx a lot. I just want to share my spare portable HDD.