OK, got new Firmware (6.5), and have whole house hardwired.
I orginally thought that I could use the ReadyNAS as the primary hard drive for storing family photos, videos, and docs. I'm finding that I can backup and sync folders from numerous types of computers, MAC OS, Windows 10, etc. No probablem accessessing remotely. Here's the question.
Can I use the ReadyNAS as the primary drive and can edit, safe, backup between right on the ReadyNAS ? All other computers have smaller hard drives, like 500GB whereas the readyans has nearly a free 3T. I'm thinking the ReadyNAS could be used, but when i edit a word doc it doesn't save and tries to save locally. If i have 1000GB of pictures, which clearly can't fit on one of the smaller computers to sync. Thoughts on how to fix this or othe rsolutions?
Unfortunately, there are still some programs around that will not show mapped drives in the open/save dialogs. Hopefully, you don't run into any.
If you do, using a symbolic link instead of drive mapping can be a solution. From a Windows command prompt, type mklink /? for the help on symbolic links.
Also remember that putting all your eggs in one basket makes a failure all the more costly, so make sure you have a backup method in place. A RAID device is a big step toward more reliability, but failures and physical loss can still occur.
Thanks for the insight here people. Good follow-up via email also.
I think my basic understnading was off. So "mapping" the drive treats the ReadyNAS as a hard drive. You can get read only access from the ready cloud APP. I'll play around with it, but SandShark, I do have the RAID up i think but definatey will keep a USB backup offsite.
Yes mapping the HDD will basically make it look like any HDD directly connected to your computer, with a assigned drive letter of your choosing. So while Windows is on C: Your NAS could be on R: like I have my NAS set to, or basically any letter you don't use. Then you can also Name it whatever you want like like any other HDD. You can read/write like anything else for most all programs.
The only program I used that Mapping didn't work was when I was running SONARR on my Windows computer and having it accessing the NAS.
That's good to know that they took care of that minor problem. Last time I ran it on Windows it didn't work. Since I run it on my NAS, there's is no Mapping drive letters, so nothing changed for me. That's nice to know if I ever switch back.
The recommended lettering of mapped drives (and what will be the default) is to start at Z and go down, since physical drives map from C upward. That keeps the drive letters from conflicting till you have more than 26. Windows has never properly handled the situation where there is a drive mapped to the next higher letter for physical drives when you plug in another USB device. There will be a conflict, and the USB device will "win".
That makes sense to start with Z. I just kind of went with R for some reason in the past and have just stuck with it. I have a lot of HDD and SSD's in my computer and still not close to reaching R. Maybe I should have gone with Z instead, but I'm not going to change things now as it's not a issue, but it is a good sugestion.
