Using a NAS HD with a new NAS Unit

[Hasan219]

Hi

I am a newbie with NAS drives so any help would be greatly appreciated!

I had a Seagate Personal Cloud which recently died on me. I managed to removed the 3Tb NAS hard drive from the enclosure. I recently purchased a QNAP TS-251 and wanted to know if I was to load my seagate NAS HDD into it, would I lose my 1.7TB of data? Or is there any way to read the data already on this drive without losing it?

Any help would be appreciated!!!

 

[Emerald]

You will not be able to read data on the drive by using the QNAP.

try connecting the drive to an internal SATA port and try booting off a Linux Live CD/USB to access the data.

It might be that the Personal Cloud uses a special format or encryption in which case you won't be able to read the data.

 

[Hasan219]

You will not be able to read data on the drive by using the QNAP.

try connecting the drive to an internal SATA port and try booting off a Linux Live CD/USB to access the data.

It might be that the Personal Cloud uses a special format or encryption in which case you won't be able to read the data.

Thanks for your advice Emerald.

I have a SATA Drive USB dock. Will that read the data from the drive as long as I am booting of a Linux Live OS?

Sorry if the question sounds stupid. I am relatively new to the world of NAS!

 

[Emerald]

Linux should recognize the drive via the dock. So give it a shot.

Have you tried using the dock under windows?

 

[Hasan219]

Linux should recognize the drive via the dock. So give it a shot.

Have you tried using the dock under windows?

Thanks again for your reply Emerald!

I initially used an Orico SATA3 Dock. It picked up the drive as a 4.18gb drive when the drive is actually 3TB.
I assumed this was because the dock only supports NAS drives with up to 2TB of capacity.
I then tried a different Orico SATA3 Dock with USB-C with support for NAS drives of up to 8TB.
This time though the drive did not show up.
I have been trying to use the dock under Mac as I don't use a Windows machine.