My new TerraMaster F2-210 2-Bay NAS Quad Core unit is coming today, the drives arrive in a couple of weeks. On my network I have two Macs and a windows Dell machine.
When I insert the drives and format them will the Macs and windows computers be able to read and write to the TOS file format.
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Do you mean that whether the HDDs formatted with TNAS could be read and write later connecting to Mac and Windows directly?
If so, the answer is no. They are of different file systems. The HDDs formatted in TNAS could not be read directly when connecting to Mac/Windows.
If so, the answer is no. They are of different file systems. The HDDs formatted in TNAS could not be read directly when connecting to Mac/Windows.
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Re: New TM F2-210 iMac
I understand that, am I right to understand that TM F2-210 has it's own file system that can only be read via the TOS. Can I copy a file from the TM to my computer via the TOS?
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Re: New TM F2-210 iMac
the nas drive uses linux as its operating system, therefore it will format the drives in a native linux format e.g. EXT4 or BTRFS
Windows and MacOS can not read these file systems directly, however on my Windows 10 PC i used the hyper-V and created an Ubuntu (Linux) Virtual Machine, then passed through my USB backup drive to the VM that i used to backup my data from my F2-210 every night (to verify backups)
this had no problems in reading the drive and extracting the data off it (it just saw my EXT4 usb drive as a normal hard drive and gave me direct access to it), if the drive is in a raid array i believe there is an extra step that you need to do to enable direct reading under Ubuntu (Linux) but as i still only operate a single drive in my F2-210 with a USB backup i havent needed to test what that step was
but in answer to your question as long as the nas drive is working then you can copy across the network any data that is stored on the drives so there is no actual need to plug the drive into a PC, aslong as its recognised in the nas drive
Windows and MacOS can not read these file systems directly, however on my Windows 10 PC i used the hyper-V and created an Ubuntu (Linux) Virtual Machine, then passed through my USB backup drive to the VM that i used to backup my data from my F2-210 every night (to verify backups)
this had no problems in reading the drive and extracting the data off it (it just saw my EXT4 usb drive as a normal hard drive and gave me direct access to it), if the drive is in a raid array i believe there is an extra step that you need to do to enable direct reading under Ubuntu (Linux) but as i still only operate a single drive in my F2-210 with a USB backup i havent needed to test what that step was
but in answer to your question as long as the nas drive is working then you can copy across the network any data that is stored on the drives so there is no actual need to plug the drive into a PC, aslong as its recognised in the nas drive
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Thank you. My hard drives are on the way.