I just bought an EX2 and an 8 TB Red. I’m not interesting using it as a RAID drive, just a media server.
I have a 6 TB RED on my Windows computer that I want to add as the second drive. I sorta assumed I could just insert it and the EX2 would be able to read it, but I’ve seen no evidence of NTFS compatibility (even though Linux supports it). Is this true?
I can copy all the files from the 6 TB to the 8 TB across the network, but what happens when I add it to the EX2? Does it get re-formatted? If so, how is it added as a Share? If I add a Share, can I specify the other drive? The instructions are not very clear on this.
Doesn’t seem to be much “community” going on here, so I thought I’d continue the saga myself. I installed the 8 TB drive and ran the setup. I couldn’t figure out the purpose of the little plastic tab that you attach to the drive. Again, no explanation in the docs, but I attached it. Setup said I needed to format the drive, so I formatted as a JBOD drive. When finished, the drive immediately show up on my Windows computer without having to fight with Windows. I turned on the TV and it also immediately saw it as a DLNA device, so I was impressed. I haven’t tried watching a 1080p movie yet. I started copying the files from my 6 TB drive over the network. Boy, this is going to take a while, so I removed the hard drive from the computer and attached it to one of the USB ports using a cradle. Nope, it didn’t see it at all. Tried rebooting the EX2, nope, can’t see the drive out there. So I installed it back into my computer and started copying files again. It will probably take about a week to get everything over there.
