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Connecting USB Hard Drives tot he RAXE500
The RAXE500 has two USB Ports so my question is can I connect two separate Hard Drives to this Router. In addition, What is the largest recommended and Supported Hard Drives to connect to the RAXE50...
howie954 wrote:The RAXE500 has two USB Ports so my question is can I connect two separate Hard Drives to this Router. In addition, What is the largest recommended and Supported Hard Drives to connect to the RAXE500?
That is what they make manuals for.
Download yours here: https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/RAXE500/RAXE450_RAXE500_UM_EN.pdf
Start on page 120. There is a link to a list of supported hard drives on page 121.
Kitsap wrote:
howie954 wrote:
The RAXE500 has two USB Ports so my question is can I connect two separate Hard Drives to this Router. In addition, What is the largest recommended and Supported Hard Drives to connect to the RAXE500?
That is what they make manuals for.
Sadly, while that is usually the best suggestion for finding advice, the manual is probably the least reliable place to look for useful details on compatible USB drives.
ReadySHARE USB Drives Compatibility List | Answer | NETGEAR Support
What are the USB drive requirements for ReadySHARE on my NETGEAR router? | Answer | NETGEAR Support
The official list is always out of date. It cannot hope to keep up with all the USB drives going. It can't even keep up with Netgear's own product roster.
The general view seems to be that a USB device that works on one Netgear product will work on many others, especially those in the same family of products. So something on one RAXE should work on other RAXE models.