Hello forum,
I'm currently in the process of moving my data to a Microserver Gen8 (GT2020) Freenas box. I need to consolidate data spread on many external drives into one large (3Tb) WD USB3 Mybook drive so I can later copy said data onto the ZFS volume in the Freenas box. Data is spread onto several smaller external NTFS based drives.
My problem is that I have imported the source disks which are also NTFS, mount them and shared them via CIFS. Read-only access works without problems, write access hangs the operation on my Win7 desktop.
I need to do this since the only machine I have with USB3 is just the Microserver and I would prefer on using that to shuffle data around.
I know it's not recommended to mess with NTFS in this way but i'm limited with regards to options short of installing windows on the Microserver.
I'm currently in the process of moving my data to a Microserver Gen8 (GT2020) Freenas box. I need to consolidate data spread on many external drives into one large (3Tb) WD USB3 Mybook drive so I can later copy said data onto the ZFS volume in the Freenas box. Data is spread onto several smaller external NTFS based drives.
My problem is that I have imported the source disks which are also NTFS, mount them and shared them via CIFS. Read-only access works without problems, write access hangs the operation on my Win7 desktop.
I need to do this since the only machine I have with USB3 is just the Microserver and I would prefer on using that to shuffle data around.
I know it's not recommended to mess with NTFS in this way but i'm limited with regards to options short of installing windows on the Microserver.