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Author Topic: NAS Hard Drive Removed and Connected To A USB 3.0-SATA External Adaptor  (Read 5452 times)

bht42

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NAS Hard Drive Removed and Connected To A USB 3.0-SATA External Adaptor
« on: May 03, 2011, 07:34:20 AM »
My NAS DNS-321 currently has 2-2TB hard drives installed as RAID 1. Does anyone know if I could remove one of the hard drives from the NAS and connect it to a USB 3.0-SATA external adaptor which is connected to my computer, and then transfer data from my computer to the NAS hard drive which is connected to the external USB 3.0-SATA adaptor, and then put the hard drive back in the NAS, at which point the NAS will update the the other hard drive with the new informatiion?

I want to be able to reverse the transfer process as well. I would like to do this because of the slow transfer rate of the DNS-321.

Thanks to all.
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Jim Padgett

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Re: NAS Hard Drive Removed and Connected To A USB 3.0-SATA External Adaptor
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2011, 02:44:28 AM »
I would assume you could boot to linux and do it... but I have never tried...
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bht42

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Re: NAS Hard Drive Removed and Connected To A USB 3.0-SATA External Adaptor
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2011, 03:29:56 AM »
I'm using Windows 7 Home Edition.
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Re: NAS Hard Drive Removed and Connected To A USB 3.0-SATA External Adaptor
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2011, 09:18:48 AM »
Since the drives are formatted via EXT, they are readable via Linux.  There are software solutions available that will let you mount the drive on a Windows machine.
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unmesh59

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Re: NAS Hard Drive Removed and Connected To A USB 3.0-SATA External Adaptor
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2011, 05:50:46 PM »
FWIW, I tried to save time on the disk transfers by connecting them directly to my PC motherboard and booting Linux. The disk transfers were wicked fast but the file permissions and ownership were borked when I put the new drives back into the DNS even though I used rsync -aivx

It could be that I used the wrong command in Linux.
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