DAS capabilities in 253a/b 251a etc.
Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:02 pm
Hi,
I understand that QNAP 253a/b and maybe various 251 versions include what's called "DAS", meaning, that it is possible to connect a computer to the storage as an external drive through USB or Thunderbolt. Is that the case?
If so, when attaching computer to the storage device that way - does it work and appear exactly the same as external hard disk does?
Reason I'm asking is as follows and may be very relevant to many other customers.
I'm using crashplan that runs on windows for backup (as many other people). The issue with moving to NAS is that crashplan doesn't support backing up directly from the NAS and if backing from another computer then windows is not formally supported because when a drive is mounted to windows crashplan service doesn't have access (permission issues of the service). There are workaround to that but they are not supported by crashplan and I don't want to use an unsupported configuration with an important service such as backup.
However, crash plan does support external disks under windows.
So if I could connect my windows machine to the QNAP and QNAP would appear as an external hard drive, that would solve my (and other's) backup issues, you would even be able to make sure such configuration is officially supported by Crashplan and that would help quite a few people.
So back to the initial question - do above models (and/or others) support DAS in a way that a windows computer would see the storage device exactly like an external disk when connected through USB/Thunderbold?
Thanks
I understand that QNAP 253a/b and maybe various 251 versions include what's called "DAS", meaning, that it is possible to connect a computer to the storage as an external drive through USB or Thunderbolt. Is that the case?
If so, when attaching computer to the storage device that way - does it work and appear exactly the same as external hard disk does?
Reason I'm asking is as follows and may be very relevant to many other customers.
I'm using crashplan that runs on windows for backup (as many other people). The issue with moving to NAS is that crashplan doesn't support backing up directly from the NAS and if backing from another computer then windows is not formally supported because when a drive is mounted to windows crashplan service doesn't have access (permission issues of the service). There are workaround to that but they are not supported by crashplan and I don't want to use an unsupported configuration with an important service such as backup.
However, crash plan does support external disks under windows.
So if I could connect my windows machine to the QNAP and QNAP would appear as an external hard drive, that would solve my (and other's) backup issues, you would even be able to make sure such configuration is officially supported by Crashplan and that would help quite a few people.
So back to the initial question - do above models (and/or others) support DAS in a way that a windows computer would see the storage device exactly like an external disk when connected through USB/Thunderbold?
Thanks
