NETGEAR is aware of a growing number of phone and online scams. To learn how to stay safe click here.
Forum Discussion
Solved
Does Orbi RBK50 support USB3 Connected hard drives?
Hi, Does Orbi RBK50 support USB3 Connected hard disks? My router just can't recognise USB3 hard disks. However it is able to recognise my 8gb uab2 pen drive. Is this a limitation in current firmwar...
Hi All,
I have checked this with the team. Orbi has not been updated to use Readyshare features as of right now it only officially supports Readyshare print for printers via the USB.Regards,
Blanca
Community Team
This is sad, hope netgear will get this up and running soon.
I got my Orbi RBK50 system in mid March 2018, and soon overwrote whatever firmware was installed with firmware V2.1.2.18. From the outset, that FW worked. Wired backhaul, Apple HomeKit with Ethernet, Lifx, and the router’s USB port accepted an attached hard disk. Since then I have uploaded a beta variation of V2.1.4.10.
All aspects of my Orbis are working satisfactorily, and I don’t get auto updates either, thanks to the Telnet tweak.
The only grumble is have is that a couple of fixed 2.4Ghz devices randomly roam from the satellite to the much further away router, so I power cycle the rogue devices, which returns them to the satellite but within a couple of days, they roam again. But there are other devices, both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, which are rock solid.
Thanks.
I don't have external hard drive, but when plug with USB thumb, Orbi RBR50 can accept only 32GB USB thumb, not bigger.
I have a 500 Gb WD Scorpio Blue HDD in a 2.5in enclosure plugged in to my Orbi RBR50 router. The USB port on an Orbi router is USB 2.0
What's the File System Type?
cheshbr wrote:
The only grumble is have is that a couple of fixed 2.4Ghz devices randomly roam from the satellite to the much further away router, so I power cycle the rogue devices, which returns them to the satellite but within a couple of days, they roam again. But there are other devices, both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz, which are rock solid.Do you have the 2.4 GHz channel set to "auto" in the wireless settings (as opposed to a fixed channel assignment in 1-11)? If so, that's my best guess as to why they sometimes change. The Orbi will detect interference on, say, ch.1, and switch to another, less crowded, channel. But your device might still be looking for your SSID on ch. 1, and will find the farther-away router which is still on ch. 1, and connect to that, before checking other channels, where it would find the closer satellite that has switched to, say ch. 11 (or vice versa with the router and satellite, and channel numbers). I don't know whether the Orbi coordinates channel changes, so that the router and any/all satellites are always on the same channel, but I'd guess not. I suspect if you disable auto channel tuning and just figure out which channel is the least crowded and just manually select that one, you won't have this issue anymore.
Well....my usb 2 drive worked perfectly for many months and I used it as a backup drive for Carbon Copy (on a MAc).
I updated the firmware to 2.2.1.210 and never saw the drive again!
I reverted the firmware back to 2.1.4.16 and although sometimes I can see the drive, I have trouble connecting to it and have not been able to write to it. I'm not 100% sure what the firmware version was before I updated.... so I'm not sure if 2.1.4.16 was the version that actually worked previously.
In any case, for the sake of sanity and not wasting time on crap like this, I'm just going to go buy a network drive and plug it in to an ethernet port and get on with my life.
Did you factory reset the Orbi router after v210 was installed, then setup from scratch with the USB drive to see if it connected and available?
paddyr wrote:
Well....my usb 2 drive worked perfectly for many months and I used it as a backup drive for Carbon Copy (on a MAc).
I updated the firmware to 2.2.1.210 and never saw the drive again!
I reverted the firmware back to 2.1.4.16 and although sometimes I can see the drive, I have trouble connecting to it and have not been able to write to it. I'm not 100% sure what the firmware version was before I updated.... so I'm not sure if 2.1.4.16 was the version that actually worked previously.
In any case, for the sake of sanity and not wasting time on crap like this, I'm just going to go buy a network drive and plug it in to an ethernet port and get on with my life.
