nas acting as an external hard drive ?

[anorphirith]

hi folks
lets say I install freenas on a computer, set up a nice array of 6 hdd's and decide to have a single partition,
is it possible or is there any way to incorporate a USB male connector so that when I plug it to a computer, it is detected just as if it was an external hard drive ?

 

[Scareh]

Why would you ever want to do that? :/

Just set up cifs and use your network to access your drives like a NAS (aka NETWORK-ATTACHED storage) is supposed to be used.

 

[anorphirith]

ok i found an example
http://www.buffalotech.com/products/desktop-hard-drives/drivestation/drivestation-duo-1
buffalo made it, you can access the array via usb.
any way to do that with freenas ?
the reason i want to do that is to make the use of the nas much easier

 

[Jason Hamilton]

I really don't understand how much easier you want it to be. As mentioned above it is a NAS . it is designed to be accessed over a network. What are you looking to gain by commending over USB?

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[Scareh]

thats not a NAS, thats just an external USB drive with basicly 2 drives in it....
I don't know how much easier you can get then CIFS. You just mount it in your explorer and its there like an USB drive thats allways connected.
Try and read up on cyberjocks dummy guide or something, that'll explain things hopefully a bit more.

 

[cyberjock]

You're trying to cross two totally different technologies with each other. The USB solution would require your base OS to support the file system. FreeNAS uses CIFS as the file sharing protocol.

Two totally different technologies that present the data in two totally different ways and aren't related at all.