Will new NAS system format my inserted hard drive?

[sytom]

I am planning to get NAS to contain my 2 drives. I don't want RAID. I only want to access the 2 drives as separate volumes. I have heard scary thing that when insert drive into new NAS, the system will format the drive and install some system stuff. Can I avoid this step and simply use the drives?

 

[popatim]

We cant answer this without know which NAS you are talking about.

 

[sytom]

We cant answer this without know which NAS you are talking about.

I am looking for NAS that can accept my 2 data drives as are.

 

[Ijack]

If you mean that you want to access data that is already on the drives then the answer is almost certainly No. Most NAS systems use one of the Linux formats - or even a proprietary format - and will not recognize Windows-formatted disks.

 

[FireWire2]

I am planning to get NAS to contain my 2 drives. I don't want RAID. I only want to access the 2 drives as separate volumes. I have heard scary thing that when insert drive into new NAS, the system will format the drive and install some system stuff. Can I avoid this step and simply use the drives?

Yes, 99% will screw up your data... Because HDD under 99% format as EXTx (linux), change partion and may reserve a space for SWAP, SNAP-SHOT... It's too risky
The only thing that I can thing off to use your TWO HDD as share drive w/o changing is stick with Windows or what ever OS that you use and make the share of of it