tomhanman Posted May 12, 2014 Share #1 Posted May 12, 2014 Hello, sorry to be a bother, I have just built a nas on an old atom board I had. It works, and even now runs my ipcam. So thank you. It currently just has an 80G drive from a laptop in it plus the USB. I have a 500G NTFS format data drive in my shared drive full of music, films, docs backups etc. I don't have anywhere else to copy this media to in order to reformat the drive in a funny linux format. Can I simply plug the drive into one of the internal sata connections and share the drive in its current format? I did search for an answer to this question, but failed. I'm sorry if I missed something blatant. Please put me straight and I'll go away and leave you all in peace! Thanks, Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnapps Posted May 12, 2014 Share #2 Posted May 12, 2014 I might be wrong but you could see your data in xpenology but not share any data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhanman Posted May 13, 2014 Author Share #3 Posted May 13, 2014 Yeah, thats the kind of info I've found in other places - educated guesses. Surely someone just knows for certain. I'd try it but I'm scared of losing data. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnapps Posted May 13, 2014 Share #4 Posted May 13, 2014 Try it. You will not loose any data if you don't do anything in storage manager or initialize in a way the new disk Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroQI Posted May 13, 2014 Share #5 Posted May 13, 2014 configure the port the disk resides on as esata and you will access it as if it was external, otherwise will need formatting http://xpenology.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6&p=2023#p2023 indicates how to set ports as esata or sata by using binary masks and translating in hexadecimal [internalportcfg, esataportcfg] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhanman Posted May 14, 2014 Author Share #6 Posted May 14, 2014 Hi, thanks for the suggestions. That posting lost me in the first line... so I thought best not to try! Instead I spent the night copying everything to five different drives, and back again after installing DSM. It is still copying. Uploading appears to be very slow, transfer seems to peak at 15MB/sec and fall to about 1MB/sec averaging at about 5MB/sec. Is this to be expected? (the pc uploading is powerful and connected with full signal to WIFI-N at 300, NAS is a GA-GC230D board with a 1.6Ghz single core Atom first generation proc, 2G ram, sata 3gb/s and 10/100 ethernet port passing through 10/100 router) This is just a test setup with what I had for free. Where is the bottleneck, and what do I need to improve for the next version... it is difficult to understand because nothing seems to be topping out - ram is supposedly at 6% proc at 36%. Cheers, Tom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccris Posted May 14, 2014 Share #7 Posted May 14, 2014 I would replace the "WIFI-N at 300" with a cable to the 10/100 router and check if it's faster. Or it might be the connection mode you are using. Are you seeing the DSM on your PC as a network drive? (displayed as "\\DSM" or the name you gave it in Windows Explorer/Total Commander...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomhanman Posted May 18, 2014 Author Share #8 Posted May 18, 2014 Hi ccris, Thanks, I have it as a mapped drive and as a network location. I can't do away with the wifi. Speeds seem to be okish now. dragging and dropping in windows to and from the network drive gives me about 8meg max transfers. Which is not stinging, but it works! Now I have to work out haw to set up access from outside the local network. my router doesn't seem to be compatible for auto setup, and I really don't understand much about udp tcp or the rest... nice sunday afternoon fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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