ReadyNas 314

[Peter_Zulof]

Dears,

I have recently purchased readynas 314 with 16 TB for file sharing purposes, i need to access this drive from machine(not by IP adress only), provided company adviced me to by ESATA cable to do it,

now i am having it but cant find it under machine drives, despite its appear on the disk managment pane(Attached) but cannot initiate it.

Do i need to format it?

Best

[StephenB · Accepted solution]

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@Peter_Zulof wrote:

Thank you stephen, unfortunately that's what i mean exactly, the provider engineer told me that i can by Esata cable, is there a way to access it from PC, I am struggling transfer my old data to it by drag and drop, its approx 1 TB.

Best

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This was a Netgear Engineer?  

The information is incorrect.  You cannot access the NAS with eSata (or USB).  Those interfaces allow the NAS to access external hard drives, not the reverse.

You'll need to use an IP connection (gigabit ethernet being the fastest).

[StephenB]

I'm not sure I fully understand your post.

Are you trying to access the NAS by connecting an eSATA cable between the NAS and the PC?  That won't work.  You can only access it over an IP network.

[Peter_Zulof]

Thank you stephen, unfortunately that's what i mean exactly, the provider engineer told me that i can by Esata cable, is there a way to access it from PC, I am struggling transfer my old data to it by drag and drop, its approx 1 TB.

Best

[StephenB · Accepted solution]

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@Peter_Zulof wrote:

Thank you stephen, unfortunately that's what i mean exactly, the provider engineer told me that i can by Esata cable, is there a way to access it from PC, I am struggling transfer my old data to it by drag and drop, its approx 1 TB.

Best

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This was a Netgear Engineer?  

The information is incorrect.  You cannot access the NAS with eSata (or USB).  Those interfaces allow the NAS to access external hard drives, not the reverse.

You'll need to use an IP connection (gigabit ethernet being the fastest).

[Peter_Zulof]

A provider engineer from a compamy named EDISCO, Dell distributer .

Sorry tp hear that, thank you for your time.