05-27-2025, 10:35 AM
Dear Team,
Hope you can assist. I wish to purchase a DAS - as a media storage, and wish to connect my current HDDs to it. At present I am using a 2-bay HDD docking station, but have been looking at the following:
QNAP TR-004
Yottamaster 4 Bay Type C Hard Drive Enclosure
CENMATE 4 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure
The above will be connected to my existing Synology NAS via USB 3 connection - to act as extended storage also.
My only concern is that I don;t want to lose data - and with these can i simply put my existing data laden HDDinto them without an issue? Or will they start to initialise the disks thus deleteing whats already on them? I have read many a reviews and stories - and hence am a bit concerned - hence i thought I'd seek your advice on these.
The CENMATE and Yottamaster i can pickup for around the £100-£130 mark - so is acceptable - whereas the QNAP is around the £250 mark.
Thank you for you advice - and God Bless.
James
Hope you can assist. I wish to purchase a DAS - as a media storage, and wish to connect my current HDDs to it. At present I am using a 2-bay HDD docking station, but have been looking at the following:
QNAP TR-004
Yottamaster 4 Bay Type C Hard Drive Enclosure
CENMATE 4 Bay Hard Drive Enclosure
The above will be connected to my existing Synology NAS via USB 3 connection - to act as extended storage also.
My only concern is that I don;t want to lose data - and with these can i simply put my existing data laden HDDinto them without an issue? Or will they start to initialise the disks thus deleteing whats already on them? I have read many a reviews and stories - and hence am a bit concerned - hence i thought I'd seek your advice on these.
The CENMATE and Yottamaster i can pickup for around the £100-£130 mark - so is acceptable - whereas the QNAP is around the £250 mark.
Thank you for you advice - and God Bless.
James