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seanebue
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Sep 07, 2019

Nighthawk M1 MR1100 External Port USB Type-A for Media and Storage Devices

I had a 3TB Seagate Barracuda XT with a 3.5 Inches enclosure USB 3.0 that is formatted to NTFS and that I've tried for several times to connect thru the MR1100 external port USB Type-A. Unfortunately, MR1100 can not read/detect my storage device. I had some several 16gb, 32 & 64GB flashdrives and working fine with the USB Type-A port, indication that the external port USB Type-A is functional.

Does Nighthawk M1 MR1100 does not support 2.5/3.5 Inches HDD? Does anyone tried to connect such high storage devices? 

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  • Blanca_O's avatar
    Blanca_O
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    Oct 15, 2019

    Hi seanebue, 

     

    Welcome to NETGEAR Community! 

     

    Do you need to load a driver to your computer before you can access the HDD? If so, this type of HDD do not work with MR1100. 

     

    Regards, 
    Blanca 
    Community Team
     

     

     

    • seanebue's avatar
      seanebue
      Star
      Oct 15, 2019

      Hi Blanca,

      Good morning here from Philippines!

      The answer is NO, I don't need driver for my HDD to load in my computer and I can access my hdd in all my gadgets except that with MR1100 sometimes I can access it, but most of the time it does'nt.

       

      I am just wondering probably because my HDD type is GPT formatted with NTFS has a capacity of 3Tb. I tried 1Tb and below and its working.