So, I bought the WD My Net N900 Central.

[soloby]

Anyone know how to use the internal storage?

I've been trying to figure it out for the last 24 hours.. No good.

 

[eibgrad]

According to the documentation, it supports Windows file sharing (SMB) and FTP. So you should be able to address it accordingly.

\\192.168.1.1\<share-name>

(try \\192.168.1.1\public, a reviewer @ Amazon mention that share specifically)

ftp:\\192.168.1.1

Assuming 192.168.1.1 is the router's IP address.

I have no idea what the default security is, if any.

 

[soloby]

According to the documentation, it supports Windows file sharing (SMB) and FTP. So you should be able to address it accordingly.

\\192.168.1.1\<share-name>

(try \\192.168.1.1\public, a reviewer @ Amazon mention that share specifically)

ftp:\\192.168.1.1

Assuming 192.168.1.1 is the router's IP address.

I have no idea what the default security is, if any.

Okay. So I have accessed it. But now there is a new problem. It is only showing as a 128gb drive, not a 1tb drive which I bought. Do you have any idea why this is?

 

[eibgrad]

Where are you seeing this 128GB number, show me.

 

[soloby]

Where are you seeing this 128GB number, show me.

Im outside at the moment so i cant show you, but under the network devices i see a storage, like 51gb free of 118gb or something like that. If you want i can show you a screen capture once i get home.

 

[soloby]

so here is the screen capture. shouldn't this be more close to 1tb? like 931gb.

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb389/hgkim90/Untitled.png

 

[eibgrad]

This is just a guess at this point, but perhaps the NAS’s HD has been divided into partitions, and the public partition is only 128GB.

What does the WD Dashboard utility ( http://192.168.1.1 ) report is the size of the HD(s)?

 

[soloby]

This is just a guess at this point, but perhaps the NAS’s HD has been divided into partitions, and the public partition is only 128GB.

What does the WD Dashboard utility ( http://192.168.1.1 ) report is the size of the HD(s)?

Well, it says that i have a WD10JPVT which if you type it in google is a WD blue 1tb drive. How do I get rid of a partition?


http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb389/hgkim90/Untitled1.png

 

[eibgrad]

Can you drill down any further on the Dashboard and find somewhere where it indicates the amount of storage?

 

[hcool1987]

I know this is a little bit older question, but for other users and you if you haven't figured it out yet. I noticed on the last screen shot that software had the option the format the drive. If you go into that section it will probably have the partitions, and the options to adjust them. Just my experience from partitions and formatting. Hope this helps people out.