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Title: Adding HDD's with existing data
Post by: nerd8192 on May 04, 2010, 07:37:55 PM

Hi,

I am considering purchasing one of these DNS-323 NAS boxes. Can anyone tell me if I put in a HDD (1Tb Samsung, formatted as NTFS) will I be required to reformat the disk to the D-Link system or can I access the data on it remotely without doing this?

Thanks,

Seth

Title: Re: Adding HDD's with existing data
Post by: D-Link Multimedia on May 04, 2010, 08:07:19 PM

More or less, any NAS system out there is going to require you to format your drive. Majority of NAS today run off of a Linux based device and require formats.

Title: Re: Adding HDD's with existing data
Post by: nerd8192 on May 04, 2010, 08:12:23 PM

But if its using Linux then its using SAMBA and if I can have a SAMBA server running on a Linux box with an NTFS drive that I can read and write to no problem (or an ext3 for that matter), why can't a NAS box do the same thing in embedded firmware?!

Title: Re: Adding HDD's with existing data
Post by: obladeo on May 04, 2010, 11:51:59 PM

Because the NAS can be accessed by anything it needs a file system that can be accessed by anything

for e.g. the MAC does not use NTFS.

Hence the reason for the file system format

Title: Re: Adding HDD's with existing data
Post by: gunrunnerjohn on May 06, 2010, 10:55:40 AM

While it's possible to read/write NTFS with a Linux box, it appears to be slow.  I have a different NAS, the Synology DS209, and it is able to read/write a USB connected NTFS disk, but at only about 6mbytes/sec transfer speed, far less than the internal EXT3 formatted RAID-1 drives.