Repurposing PC as NAS - USB Bridge Cable and Windows 11

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Home Networking@selfhosted.forumEnglish · 11 months ago

I have a PC with an 8TB hardware RAID disk, running Windows 10, that I am repurposing as a NAS.

I want to explore using USB 3.1 to connect the new “front-end” PC to the old system to share the RAID array. I have found many “USB bridge” cables, most of which require a special app for data transfer and don’t say they support standard SMB sharing.

What I can’t seem to find is a description of how Windows sees the connection. What does this look like to the client (new front-end system)? Does the shared RAID drive appear as a normal network drive? I.e. is standard SMB sharing supported over a bridged USB connection?

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