Any NAS software that allows single pre-written drives?

I have an old mini htpc sitting around and a 8bay drive dock. I already have a few single drives in it with some Blu-ray rips, but I bought a Shield so I’d like to use it as a dedicated NAS. I don’t care about backups because I already own the physical media- all I want to do is to be able to access the drives individually within my home.

Is there any way I can host these drives individually, keeping the data? They are all formatted in nfs4.

What OS are you running on it?

For a shield use NFS shares or SMB3 and go from there, then put Kodi on your shield and connect it to your shares and off you go.

MrGuvernment said:

What OS are you running on it?

For a shield use NFS shares or SMB3 and go from there, then put Kodi on your shield and connect it to your shares and off you go.

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Running on what? I want to use my mini pc as a dedicated NAS to serve the Shield, just not sure how the best way to go about it is without losing data on the individual drives. As far as I can tell FreeNAS requires me to reformat drives? I'm a little confused about what software to use.

Wag said:

Running on what? I want to use my mini pc as a dedicated NAS to serve the Shield, just not sure how the best way to go about it is without losing data on the individual drives. As far as I can tell FreeNAS requires me to reformat drives? I'm a little confused about what software to use.

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Yeah, but...what OS are you running on the box you're going to use to host the media? If it's windows, just use an SMB share with the Shield and you should be fine.

Joust said:

Yeah, but...what OS are you running on the box you're going to use to host the media? If it's windows, just use an SMB share with the Shield and you should be fine.

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Nothing right now, that's why I'm asking about the software- I'm willing to put anything on it. I said the drives with my rips are in ext4.

Wag said:

Nothing right now, that's why I'm asking about the software- I'm willing to put anything on it. I said the drives with my rips are in ext4.

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Actually you wrote "nfs4". ext4 makes more sense! That's a Linux filesystem, so use a Linux OS, for example Ubuntu.