Combining shares in NAS Lite?

[matt91]

So this is kinda related to Sage, but not enough to post anywhere but here, I think. (I also posted this question at the serverelements forum, but haven't gotten any replies yet)

I have a NAS box using NAS Lite (v 2.06). The shares are available to windows as \\nas\disk-0\share 1 or \\nas\disk-1\share 2. I would like to extend the share 1 onto a new hard drive. How can I do this? The shares appear to be limited to the disk on which they're setup.

I could move the current share 1 onto a new larger drive, but that seems (to me) to defeat part of the reason of having a NAS -- bulk storage without having to worry about where specific files/folders are being saved.

I even tried to setup the concatenating feature of the SATA RAID card that i'm using, but NASLite still sees the drives as independent devices, versus one big drive.

Any thoughts?

[tmiranda]

Matt,

I do not think you can do what you are trying to do. If your SATA controller is true hardware RAID you can make all the drives connected to it look like one big drive to NASLite. If it is not hardware RAID it will appear as seperate drives.

Your only other option is to use a Linux distro directly as your NAS. There is a long thead here full of useful information. (Search on NAS in the thread title.)

I have used NASLite for a while now and this is really my only complaint about it.

Tom

[motobarsteward]

I played around with Nas Lite and fell for the old trick of buying 'raid' cards that were only software raid. I should have guessed when I only paid £20 for them! NasLite does not RAID drives when they are connected via software raid cards.

In the end, I loaded XP Pro onto the machine. The disk manager will let you 'raid' drives together that way. Be warned that changing the raid configuration will cause you to loose all of the data on the drives in the raid.

I also had to play a very interesting game with a Chicken, some corn, a fox and a boat to move everything around!

[BBCritical]

I tried Nas Lite and could not live with the multiple drives being the same size restriction. I have been pleasantly happy with unraid...