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  1. J

    Are there any NAS system that can work off the USB external drive without shucking it?

    Can you give me a link or let me know the model number of that QNAP with that ability? When you say that you can " expand the capacity" of the Qnap nas, are you talking about adding an external hard drive that incorporates into the RAID array or that it will just add an a regular hard drive...
  2. J

    Are there any NAS system that can work off the USB external drive without shucking it?

    If you are building an 18-24 drive readynas, its cheaper to line up some external hard drives and plug them into a NAS with a ton of hard drives rather then spend $15,000 on some enterprise rack mounted solution. Some people value massive raw dataspace for archiving rather then some kind of...
  3. J

    Are there any NAS system that can work off the USB external drive without shucking it?

    According to wikipedia " Transfer speed – USB 3.0 adds a new transfer type called SuperSpeed or SS, 5 Gbit/s (electrically, it is more similar to PCI Express 2.0 and SATA than USB 2.0)[8] " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0 Are you saying wikipedia is incorrect? External hard drives...
  4. J

    Are there any NAS system that can work off the USB external drive without shucking it?

    " Shucking, as the practice has come to be known, is the process of buying an external drive, opening it up, and removing the bare drive " In this case, removing the internal drive to use for a NAS. Its a pain, time consuming and delicate process to do this. USB 3.0 is the third major version...
  5. J

    Are there any NAS system that can work off the USB external drive without shucking it?

    Are there any NAS system that can work off the USB external drive without shucking it? Perhaps some kind of box filled with USB ports that you can plug in like 8 external hard drives into and work on some kind of raid configuration? If not, is there some reason why one does not exist like a...
  6. J

    Cheapest 8 Bay NAS system? no fancy stuff needed

    Thanks for the suggestion. Are there cheaper ones than this that you would not go for or are you talking about the DIY ones with software and a PC? Thanks
  7. J

    Cheapest 8 Bay NAS system? no fancy stuff needed

    Hello I am looking for my cheapest 8 bay NAS setup possible. This is for my home theater and I don't need any of that fancy enterprise corporate type stuff. Just RAID 5 and an Ethernet port. No need for fiber connection or a server able to service thousands at a time. Just cheapest 8 bay...
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