Hi all.
I've been researching and asking questions regarding NAS drives, and I thought I'd chosen a NAS to purchase. Then, just before I buy, I see that it formats the drives you're installing and there's no way round it, something I can't do.
I have an 512Gb SSD and two 1TB HDDs filled with data in my old PC. I have a new mini PC and I had hoped to move these into a NAS and access them as is, no reformatting, no RAID - although I may buy another drive and drop it in a 4-bay solution and mirror to that, I have no need or desire for reformatting these drives currently, nor to move to a RAID solution.
All the NAS units I look at say I have to reformat my drives first. I can't just plug them in and use them. It's a shame as my really old 2-bay Buffalo NAS allowed just that. DAS drives look attractive, but mixing an SSD with HDDs seems harder there and I haven't found one to suit.
Any thoughts or solutions for the above? Am I missing a NAS that could mix these drives and not require me to reformat? Is there a DAS that would allow SSD and HDD together? Do I have to purchase a NAS with new disks and copy everything across and just throw my current disks out?
Thank you!