First experience with a NAS

Compumind said:

@Ztruker -

Wait. Try this on the command line instead, I just remembered it.

cd /d Z:

Or

cd /d Z: | dir



P.S. I don't understand why this switch is not implied by default.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd /d Z:
The system cannot find the drive specified.

jimbo45 said:

@Ztruker

What does diskpart -->List Disk -->select disk -->list vol show.

The other thing is if the NAS is operating as a JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) it will be acting as a single aggregate drive -- I have similar but on a Linux NAS where I have 4X 5TB HDD's as a single 20TB drive . Windows just sees it as a single 20TB network drive.

Go into the "Storage management" facilities to see what is being mapped. It might show a Storage space or a single drive which should be addressible. Individual manual accesses to either of the drives shouldn't be possible -- the whole process is meant to be transparent to the user with the OS balancing up and scheduling the Disk I/O.

If you want individual addressibility the NAS might have a setting "Individual disks" and for faster speed / performance or whatever some versions of RAID might be an option as well.

Cheers
jimbo

Thanks Jimbo. Diskpart doesn't see the NAS drive (Z:).

C:\WINDOWS\system32>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.22000.653

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: ASCTHRIFTER2

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 232 GB 2048 KB *
Disk 1 Online 1863 GB 3072 KB *
Disk 2 No Media 0 B 0 B

DISKPART> exit

Leaving DiskPart...

C:\WINDOWS\system32>

This is what the ZyXel software sees, two separate volumes that I can map individually.

Ztruker said:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>cd /d Z:
The system cannot find the drive specified.

Strange. It works just fine for me. Then again, my NAS is a large single drive.

Does the Y: drive fail in the same way?

Per Jimbo's post:

"If you want individual addressibility the NAS might have a setting "Individual disks" and for faster speed / performance or whatever some versions of RAID might be an option as well."

Does your NAS have this setting? If so, enable it and try the command which I posted again. Interesting scenario.

Compumind said:

Strange. It works just fine for me. Then again, my NAS is a large single drive.

Does the Y: drive fail in the same way?

Per Jimbo's post:

"If you want individual addressibility the NAS might have a setting "Individual disks" and for faster speed / performance or whatever some versions of RAID might be an option as well."

Does your NAS have this setting? If so, enable it and try the command which I posted again. Interesting scenario.

I'll take a look, my thanks to you and Jimbo.

Edit: Nope, only options are JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) , RAID0 and RAID1. I think JBOD is like the individual disks you were referring to.

... and yes, Y: drive behaves the same.

I can use it from the command line or via a batch file. I use robocopy to sync my D: drive to the NAS and it works fine.\ via a batch file.

robocopy "\\Ascthrifter2\er2_d" "\\172.16.103.182\public\2022-06-23" /E /XD "$RECYCLE.BIN" "System Volume Information" /DCOPY:T

Well...

We tried, right, lol?