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ORBI - USB Hard Drive support
It is singly the most disapointing issue with the router - NO USB Hard Drive Support. Sadly this means I will not be purchasing any more of these products unless and until this is rectified. Expensiv...
What do I need to do in order to simply plug a 4TB Harddrive into my RBR50 as a shared drive between the various household computers?
It's looking like the USB port is not going to do it.
What if I connect the drive to the RBR50 via a USB to Ethernet adapter?
Apologies if this has been covered but the USB issue is hard to cut through to get a direct answer to my question.
TIA!
RBR50 + 2 satellites
Firmware Version V2.3.5.30
Mostly Mac ecosystem
You can try a USB to Ethernet adapter and see if this helps any.
For the most part. Orbi doesn't support Storage media at all. Its been asked about since Orbi first came out by everyone. We presume since NG hasn't done anything, that it won't be seen. Even the new Orbi AX doesn't have a USB port so kind of tells me that NG doesn't want to support USB drives on Orbi at all foing forward.
Let us know if the USB to ethernet adapter works for you...
Bambooken wrote:What do I need to do in order to simply plug a 4TB Harddrive into my RBR50 as a shared drive between the various household computers?
It's looking like the USB port is not going to do it.
What if I connect the drive to the RBR50 via a USB to Ethernet adapter?
Apologies if this has been covered but the USB issue is hard to cut through to get a direct answer to my question.
TIA!
RBR50 + 2 satellites
Firmware Version V2.3.5.30
Mostly Mac ecosystem
I replaced my Airport Extreem with the ORBI system.
Has anyone tried to attach an Airport Extreem in bridge mode to the ORBI via ethernet then attach a harddrive to the Airport Extreem? Perhaps this would be a work around of sorts?
- Have any viable workarounds been discovered?
I am going to try it out soon. I was able to create a new network using my extreme. I think you can acess that network some how. But I dont know. I want to see if I an bridge it. I will let you know if it works.
I was able to connect a hardrive to the Orbi. I had an apple extreme laying around (old router) with a USB port. I conected the Apple Extreme to the router's ethernet port. I set the Apple Extreme to bridge mode. Conected a hardrive to the Airport Extreme. Enabled my computer to see the attached hardrive.
It works