Putting a NAS hard drive in an external enclosure
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Hello to the entire CCM community.
I got a QNAP NAS model TS-112.
I'm not impressed with the usage mode of a NAS and I prefer having a storage solution that's a bit more portable. So, I bought an external hard drive enclosure at Boulanger (essentialB basic model for €30).
I removed the hard drive from the NAS, it's a Seagate Barracuda 7200 of 1TB.
When I connect the HDD in the external enclosure and plug it into the PC, it doesn't spin up and nothing appears in the file explorer.
The Disk Manager shows a volume E: but with a capacity of 0 (in fact, it's exactly as if I plugged the empty enclosure into my computer).
I should mention that the HDD works perfectly once inserted into the NAS.
What is the solution to make this HDD functional in an external enclosure?
I should clarify that I'm running Windows 10 Home and that the HDD is connected to a USB 3.0 port.
Thank you in advance for your help.
I got a QNAP NAS model TS-112.
I'm not impressed with the usage mode of a NAS and I prefer having a storage solution that's a bit more portable. So, I bought an external hard drive enclosure at Boulanger (essentialB basic model for €30).
I removed the hard drive from the NAS, it's a Seagate Barracuda 7200 of 1TB.
When I connect the HDD in the external enclosure and plug it into the PC, it doesn't spin up and nothing appears in the file explorer.
The Disk Manager shows a volume E: but with a capacity of 0 (in fact, it's exactly as if I plugged the empty enclosure into my computer).
I should mention that the HDD works perfectly once inserted into the NAS.
What is the solution to make this HDD functional in an external enclosure?
I should clarify that I'm running Windows 10 Home and that the HDD is connected to a USB 3.0 port.
Thank you in advance for your help.
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Hello
It is normal for the capacity to be zero. Often, small NAS devices are in a proprietary format, at best in a Linux format.
So simply connecting it to a case won't work.
If the goal is to read the files, you'll need to find an intermediate way to copy the files to a disk under Windows (which will handle the conversion) and from the NAS.
Then format the disk in NTFS or another format and copy everything onto it.
Best regards
"We swallow the flattering lie in one gulp and drink the bitter truth drop by drop."-
I recovered all the data from this disk. It is now empty and ready to be formatted. But what should I do if it is not recognized by my PC when I plug it into the external enclosure? Should a hard drive connected to an external enclosure start spinning immediately? Because this one spins in the NAS but not in the external enclosure, which is new and was bought this afternoon.
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I also want to add that there is no standoff in the rack next to the SATA ports (I'm talking about the 4 small metal spikes but I'm not sure of the name).
