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Access a Synology drive directly from my Mac

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hamishb

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Jun 14, 2002
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I am upgrading my Synology NAS with two new WD Red 4TB drives. Time Machine volume for the whole family (well the Mac users amongst us).

Any idea if I can mount the previous drives (which I believe were in individual volumes, not RAID) on my Mac using a USB dock?

I have tried using MacFUSE and Paragon.

thanks
 
Depends on I believe which RAID configuration you used and what format. I have a Synology NAS and the drives are formatted EXFAT. So I'm really not sure. You could get a USB3 enclosure and put the drives in there and connect them to your NAS as external and I believe they would be accessible that way. Personally if you upgraded the drives and backed that data up or migrated it to the new drives not sure why you would want to access it, I would just format them and use them as externals. Which Synology NAS do you have? How many bays and are there any empty bays? If you have empty bays then install the old drives there as their own volumes.
 
It’s a 4 bay so I suspect I will just throw the original two drives back in. I replaced them with two new drives so still some spare space there.
 
hamishb said:
I am upgrading my Synology NAS with two new WD Red 4TB drives. Time Machine volume for the whole family (well the Mac users amongst us).

Any idea if I can mount the previous drives (which I believe were in individual volumes, not RAID) on my Mac using a USB dock?

I have tried using MacFUSE and Paragon.

thanks
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Which Paragon did you try? NAS servers format the drives using EXT file systems. They use Linux. Try using extFS Paragon.
 
it may be easiest to get the data of the drives while they are still in the NAS if you want to keep it safe.
 
These methods are perfectly safe and faster, since the OP stated he wasn't using RAID.

orph said:
it may be easiest to get the data of the drives while they are still in the NAS if you want to keep it safe.
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^^ im not saying it's safer just a new option, depends on what the OP is happiest doing.
not every one is used to making usb boot drives.
(gess bad wording in my original post, i just meant to keep data safe not that usb boot drive to recover data is less safe)
 
No, you're right about safety, if RAID was involved. The topic title is "Access a Synology drive directly from my Mac". Otherwise you're 100% right.


orph said:
^^ im not saying it's safer just a new option, depends on what the OP is happiest doing.
not every one is used to making usb boot drives.
(gess bad wording in my original post, i just meant to keep data safe not that usb boot drive to recover data is less safe)
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