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Author Topic: DNS-320 USB port, can I connect a USB hard drive?  (Read 19650 times)

perfectdark

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DNS-320 USB port, can I connect a USB hard drive?
« on: February 10, 2012, 08:31:42 AM »
Just curious if I can connect an external USB hard drive to the USB port on the DNS-320 for added storage or backuos or just to copy my data to the DNS-320? The manual says its for a USB printer porrt, but i say a thread of something saying that connected a drive?
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Sorry, just read the last page of the manual and it talks about USB backup copying from USB drive to DNS-320.. I never say this feature listed anywhere else.
How are the speeds on this? I have one of my 2tb WD drives in a USB external encosure and its holding my data NTFS at about 1.7gB. Would it be faster to connect it to my laptop and FTP it to the DNS-320 (normally gets 2 files at a time both at 2-4Mb/s) connect the USB drive directly to the DNS-320 and hold the USB/MOUNT button for 1-3 seconds and its suppose to back up the drive to a folder on the DNS-320, which would be faster? and assuming i did the USB backup, it would copy all the folders correct? Right now since this drive came from my WHS it has parent folders and sub folders and is a mess. I would want to make a folder like MEDIA and have my sub folders in there PICTURES, MOVIES, TV etc. So if i backed this up could i later change the folder structure without retrasnfering files over the network?
« Last Edit: February 10, 2012, 08:38:37 AM by perfectdark »
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cable2

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Re: DNS-320 USB port, can I connect a USB hard drive?
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2012, 11:24:10 AM »
Hi,
The 320 does not support backups to an attached USB drive although this is in the wish list I believe.  If you are using an ethernet connection between your laptop via network, this will probably be fastest, but to copy over 1.7 TB is going to take a long time.  The direct USB to NAS connection is not going to be faster, but it will not tie up your laptop.  You can then just forget about it for a day or so.  When finished, you can create your folders and move your files wherever you like.
One other note, consider updating your firmware to 2.02 before you do all this if you are planning to use the UPNP / media server function as in 2.0 you will get a non-alphanumeric pile of folders and files. 
Good luck
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