Using My Book WOrld Edition II disks as a standard pc storage

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I have 1TB My Book II (rings). Can I remove the 500gb disks from the My Book case and use it in my pc as a normal disks? I want to create raid 0 in my pc, and this two 500gb disks seems to be perfect.

And second question- if the first option is possible- can I put them back into case after removing the system and all the data from them, and use them as a regular ethernet storage?

Thanks in advance!

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Hello,

You can remove it from the NAS and connected into the computer, however the drives are EXT3 formatted and a Windows computer won’t recognize the drive you will need to reformat the drives to a Windows compatible file system. As soon as you format your drive you will remove the NAS OS and won’t be able to use the drive on the MBW enclosure again.

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Thanks for the answer Nesvic!

Is there any way to get them working in the MBW enclosure back? I mean install the NAS OS.

What about changing the drives in the MBW to a new one?I found no info in the user guide, that I have to install any special software to get them working…