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medikoo's avatar
medikoo
Aspirant
Jul 17, 2023

Connecting a hard drive to a Nighhawk M6 MR6450

Is this possible to connect a USB drive, so it's accessible via network (as it was with previous models, as e.g. MR2100) ?

I've browsed the manual and I do not see any hint, on that being possible

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  • JohnPeng's avatar
    JohnPeng
    NETGEAR Expert
    Jul 17, 2023
    medikoo wrote:

    Is this possible to connect a USB drive, so it's accessible via network (as it was with previous models, as e.g. MR2100) ?

    I've browsed the manual and I do not see any hint, on that being possible

    This is not supported

     

    Thanks

    • medikoo's avatar
      medikoo
      Aspirant
      Jul 18, 2023

      Thanks JohnPeng for confirmation. That's an unfortunate downgrade for this series.

       

      Is there any reliable recipe, to add some USB drive into the network? Ideally if it's power independent. I'm thinking of some battery powered USB drive enclosure that could also be connected via Ethernet (or/and WiFi) and would setup an SMB share (?) Any success stories on that?

      • chrodroid's avatar
        chrodroid
        Guide
        Jul 18, 2023

        Raspberry pi 4  running Openmediavault  connected to the modem either through Ethernet or Wifi and you can plug any drive or usb thumb drive into the pi and the OMV samba share will take care the rest of sharing.