Expansion? Does anyone know if I can use the USB port to expand it to an additional hard drive? I know other units allow this.
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The USB port acts as a print server for any usb printer. You can't add an external hard disk to this unit
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Yes, you actually can add a hard drive. There are caveats to what you can do and you have to "hack" the unit (by adding a text file to a special folder on the drive - about the simplest hack I can think of) but it is very easy. Search for "fun_plug dns 323" on the search engine of your choice.
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Hello Justin. The drive is bigger than others but not so much. I can plug it with other devices without any problem.Regards.
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This is an expansion unit, that allow you to add up to 12 more drives to DS2413+ or DS3612xs. This expansion unit, by itself, does not do anything.
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I was wondering the same thing. So basically, it's impossible to purchase a 3TB drive that does not come with a plug? Unfortunate. :/
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I did add a second hard drive, but I am no pro. The metal plate blocking the slot is a knock out, so I got pliers and ripped it (gently,) out. I had to go buy a cable (I bought a longer version of the cable that attached the drive to my old computer) and simply installed it in the same way my old drive was installed. I may simply have gotten lucky. I remember an old conversation about making one drive a slave to the other, but I didn't do anything like that, and the drives are both working, so maybe I did get lucky. You are better off talking to a real tech guy, and someone who is 20 years younger than I am. I did add a second hard drive, but I am no pro. The metal plate blocking the slot is a knock out, so I got pliers and ripped it (gently,) out. I had to go buy a cable (I bought a longer version of the cable that attached the drive to my old computer) and simply installed it in the same way my old drive was installed. I may simply have gotten lucky. I remember an old conversation about making one drive a slave to the other, but I didn't do anything like that, and the drives are both working, so maybe I did get lucky. You are better off talking to a real tech guy, and someone who is 20 years... » Read More I did add a second hard drive, but I am no pro. The metal plate blocking the slot is a knock out, so I got pliers and ripped it (gently,) out. I had to go buy a cable (I bought a longer version of the cable that attached the drive to my old computer) and simply installed it in the same way my old drive was installed. I may simply have gotten lucky. I remember an old conversation about making one drive a slave to the other, but I didn't do anything like that, and the drives are both working, so maybe I did get lucky. You are better off talking to a real tech guy, and someone who is 20 years younger than I am. « Show Less
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It has a slot for an additional hard drive. You'd need to purchase an HDD enclosure and the cord to plug in the drive.
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It looks like a total of three spaces are in the case for hard drives. You can always add external USB drives too, which are more transportable than the internal drives.
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Mine has a 500 Gig hard drive. I also have an external usb hard drive (500 gig.) I don't know about upgrading the internal drive.
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You should be able to expand your desktop, I was able to with mine. It was a complicated process, I had to download the proper drivers and change my settings, but it worked (although its an awful connection)
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That's one of the big flaws in that drive -- after a while the USB connector in the unit itself starts to fail. for the short term, you may be able to jiggle the cord to get some connection, but in the long run it is going to become unusable.
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You can leave the existing harddrive in it and add drives. Mine is one year older and has spots for 3 msata drives, plus the existing hhd. Rest is upgradeable also (video, wifi/bluetooth). I just upgraded my wifi to AC for $32, my msata 128g crucial drive was $97. This model has 4 ram slots the MSI site says 3 ssd slots.. has killer double shot lan/wifi. Turbo fan with just a button push. I love mine. I converted the new msata to the boot drive and use the existing for storage.
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The manual doesn't say. I used a 1TB drive and it worked fine. You can add 2 external drives, but no mention of size limit there. You can map it as a network drive, so you can move content back and forth that way, but slower ofc.
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I have not tried. I have tried upto 1tb. If your drive has external power supply i dont see why should there be a problem. However i think i read somewhere that it supports upto 1tb. Anyways i found this product super useful.
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The way I have used it is to plug the SATA end into a bare internal hard drive and the USB 3 end into a running computer. I have done this to clone the running computer's hard drive on to the bare hard drive that I am going to install, so I can install it as a fully working loaded hard drive. There may be other ways to use this
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The previous answers are wrong. The USB port is for adding additional hard drives only. You can only access the files through the Ethernet connection.
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I believe that only an eSata drive can be added to expand storage, in a RAID 0 configuration. What the limit is on that doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but I'd assume at least 1TB. I haven't found any size limit for USB drives either, but since you can only copy to/from or backup/restore using USB drives that makes a huge drive of limited value anyway. I suspect the only way we'll know is to remove the internal drive, attach it to a PC, and see what filesystem the Mediashare uses. Sorry, wish I had a more helpful answer.
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It has no storage of its own. It is an enclosure into which you can put a hard drive. I put a 3tb drive into mine, but am planning to take it out, since the enclosure is too slow. I think I'm only getting USB 1.0 speeds out of it, not USB 2.0. So a 3tb drive would be better used elsewhere. I'm going to put an older smaller drive in & use it for different purposes (ie, not main storage, but special-case backups).