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Jan 22, 2022

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Help with USB Device and ReadySHARE on RAX30

Hello helpful souls, I am trying to attach a LaCie d2 Professional 8TB External Hard Drive to the USB port of my Nighthawk AX2400 RAX 30. (Links are to Amazon and will open in a new page.) Fo...

michaelkenward
Jan 23, 2022
designgrrl wrote:

Could you tell me which 8TB Seagate drive you're using? Right now, I think I'd rather purchase something with at least one example of proven success than bang my head against the wall trying to get the LaCie to work.

Seagate Backup Plus Hub 8TB. STEL8000200.

This is in an R7800. It does not claim to be compatible with that router. It just works. I got it because it is listed as working with the R7000P. I have one of those too.

But this is suspicious:

So I decided to a 1TB Seagate Expansion Portable drive that I had lying around, since you mentioned success with Seagate. This showed promise, because I was able to use the "Create Network Folder" GUI. However, I still bumped. up against that ~200mb-sized "S_Drive" issue that I had with the LaCie.

Is that what you got on the Mac? If so, it smells like something that has nothing to do with ReadySHARE.

You might want to see what they say over on the RAX world.

designgrrl

Aspirant

Jan 23, 2022

Thanks for all of this information, michaelkenward!

I tried a few things related to the information you shared and nothing seemed to improve the situation with the LaCie. So I decided to a 1TB Seagate Expansion Portable drive that I had lying around, since you mentioned success with Seagate. This showed promise, because I was able to use the "Create Network Folder" GUI. However, I still bumped. up against that ~200mb-sized "S_Drive" issue that I had with the LaCie.

Could you tell me which 8TB Seagate drive you're using? Right now, I think I'd rather purchase something with at least one example of proven success than bang my head against the wall trying to get the LaCie to work.

Thanks again!

michaelkenward

Guru - Experienced User

Jan 23, 2022

designgrrl wrote:

Could you tell me which 8TB Seagate drive you're using? Right now, I think I'd rather purchase something with at least one example of proven success than bang my head against the wall trying to get the LaCie to work.

Seagate Backup Plus Hub 8TB. STEL8000200.

This is in an R7800. It does not claim to be compatible with that router. It just works. I got it because it is listed as working with the R7000P. I have one of those too.

But this is suspicious:

So I decided to a 1TB Seagate Expansion Portable drive that I had lying around, since you mentioned success with Seagate. This showed promise, because I was able to use the "Create Network Folder" GUI. However, I still bumped. up against that ~200mb-sized "S_Drive" issue that I had with the LaCie.

Is that what you got on the Mac? If so, it smells like something that has nothing to do with ReadySHARE.

You might want to see what they say over on the RAX world.

designgrrl
Aspirant
Jan 23, 2022
Is that what you got on the Mac? If so, it smells like something that has nothing to do with ReadySHARE.
Nope, the "S_Drive" is what ReadySHARE auto-creates on any drive I attach to it when I plug it in, regardless of how it's formatted. So it's not related to the OS (I checked on my Windows 11 laptop and it shows the same folder size). This makes me wonder if it's not playing nice with the drives. I also have the router you have in storage and I remember a similar thing happening, but I was just tinkering with the idea of network storage then and chalked it up to "well this doesn't work"...this time I'm more determined!

Costco has the drive you're using on discount starting today. I think I'll pop over there and get one this morning and test.

Thanks again for your help michaelkenward ! I'll report back if it works and head over to the RAX group if it doesn't.
- designgrrl
  Aspirant
  Jan 23, 2022
  michaelkenward I just returned from Costco with the Seagate drive. (Link to Costco for anyone that might want one.) Plug and play perfection! I did nothing but plug the drive into the router and boom! full 8 TBs.
  
  Thanks so much for your help!
  - michaelkenward
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jan 23, 2022
    designgrrl wrote:
    
    michaelkenward I just returned from Costco with the Seagate drive. (Link to Costco for anyone that might want one.) Plug and play perfection! I did nothing but plug the drive into the router and boom! full 8 TBs.
    
    Thanks so much for your help!
    
    You may be pleasantly surprised by that drive.
    
    Here at least, it isn't just the 8TB that it can access, but also drives attached to the USB ports. I tried it with a 4TB WD drive. Works just fine.
    
    Good to know too that this drive works with at least some of the RAX range.