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ADDITIONAL FEATURES
Connect the USB drive to the Gigabit SATA NAS and go to My Network Places.
The external drive will show up as “usb1,” and you can access it to transfer les
without further login. Before disconnecting it, go to the Disk Utility menu and click
“Unmount” to eject the drive.
NOTE: To access the USB drive via FTP, leave the “md1” directory and you’ll nd
the “usb1” folder in the root directory.
6.3.2 The NAS as a USB Drive (Model 505888 / 1.5 TB only)
When the Gigabit SATA NAS isn’t connected to the network, it can also be used
as a simple USB mass storage device.
1. Login via the Web browser, stop all current downloads, go to Section 3.2.3.3:
System / Turn Off Server and turn the server off.
2. Once the system has shut down, remove the power supply from the AC outlet
and disconnect the Ethernet cable.
3. Connect the USB cable to the USB device port on the NAS and the USB port
on your computer.
4. Turn on the NAS. The USB drive will automatically appear: in My Computer for
Windows; on the desktop for Mac.
IMPORTANT: Depending on the le system used to format the drive and the OS,
the USB drive might not be accessible without the installation of additional software
applications to mount the drive. The EXT2 le system is ideal for the network drive,
but is not natively supported by Windows or Mac; so if you intend to use it as a
USB drive, choosing NTFS or FAT32 might be more convenient to use (although
slower for the network drive). Remember that when formatting the drive, all data
will be lost, including the data related to the network drive.
The user accounts and access rights used for the network drive don’t apply to the