Can this be used in conjunction with the Western Digital My Cloud USB expansion port to add more drives to the NAS? It seems the 8-port model works.
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It work with my external HDs, and should be model independent (especially the one that run under its own power (not through USB alone). It also work with the HD that use USB power, but I personally feel that I cannot have a lot of that kind of HDs.
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No you cannot. This is not a NAS, you cannot use it as a NAS, it has no ethernet port. Think of it as a box with an external drive connected to your PC except in this box you can have up to 8 drives and configure them in some RAID class.
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I would say No. My 13 Port unit came with a .5A wall adapter, not enough to operate a USB hard drive.
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I have 4 x 6TB drives, 4 x 5TB drives driven by this card. There is no issue. I have no clue what post from t4d is about. Don't believe such non-sense. Enterprise networking is my bread and butter.
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Sorry...don't know. I only have a Synology NAS, so no experience on the external USB HDs
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Yes, the device can be used as a NAS (Network Attached Storage) if you connect a USB HHD, SD card, USB drive. I am not sure if it has a program to do automatic backups, but it will serve as the NAS no problem!
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I use my 3TB Seagate Central with a Plex Server. It supports DLNA. Tried Twonky before finding Plex.
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It isn't a NAS box; no Ethernet, no file services that I am aware of. It's as esata or USB housing for four drives. Mine is USB connected to a synology NAS box and exposes each of the four drives inside as a separate device to the synology nas head which then makes those available on the network via smb, nfs, etc. am pretty sure this box will work when USB connected to OS X. I have used other devices with the same innards as this one with OS X successfully. This box may also concatenate drives (make four 2 tb drives look like 1 8 tab drive) but I wouldn't recommend using that feature; lose one of the four drives and all your data is lost.
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You can order an adapter easier. Check Amazon for a 800 to 400 They are so cheap and easier to carryI was looking into this myself except I have a few three port external HDs and I just use that set upEasy either way. The cables will recognize... I do it all the time in the above situation.
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Yes. For example, I have my NAS adapter attached to 3.5-in laptop hard drive that is in an external case which only has a USB port. Follow the instructions and format the portable storage using the NAT adapter utility. By default, it creates 3 folders for you: Music, Photo, and Video. Plus there is a Media Server utility. So, again, I would have to say, yes.
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I am just about 100% certain that you cannot plug this directly into a computer. It's not a mass storage device like any kind of external hard drive. If the three different workstations talk to each other on the network, might as well have them talk to the Synology NAS (Network Attached Storage) using the network.
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I dont believe this enclosure is meant to be use as NAS. It can be configured while connoted to a computer.
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This Model is for one computer thru the USB Port, You could share from one computer to by the NAS (Network Access Storage) Model to setup on a network rather than USB.
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I have the same Synology 1813+ DiskStation, set up in a RAID 6 (with data protection) configuration, and I have temporarily filled only 5 of the 8 drive bays, as I do not need the entire 8-bay (4TB each) amount of the storage, and in addition, I don't want to use these drives yet to extend their useful lifetime. Additional drives can be added one-by-one as needed. So yes, what you are asking will work fine. And this unit is a GREAT feature-packed NAS! I've had it for 8 months now, and love it.
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There doesn't seem to be an indication that this drive had to be used as a NAS setup. My personal application is a NAS setup but is used primarily as a media host for an Apple TV2.
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Yes,I use 3 sans digital 8 bays and added this one to the group and put 3tb drives in it.WORKS GREAT!
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No. FYI---I had problems using two Seagate 3 TB drives that were on the recommended drive list, support got them working but they stopped after 1 day of use. I know that this unit has gotten good reviews and is an inexpensive unit. Not like other NAS, you'll need to install the software that's included on each computer that you want to use the storage with. Buy the way, Iomega support said Western Digital drives worked more consistently with it than Seagates.