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Nighthawk RAX50 ReadyShare cannot recognize my Kioxia 1TB SSD in Orico enclosure
Hi All,
I have a Nighthawk RAX Wifi-6 Router. And I'd like to connect one external SSD drive (Kioxia 1TB NVMe SSD + Orico enclosure) to its USB port so that I expect to share files in this SSD through network.
However, seems my router couldn't recognize my SSD. After connected to the router's USB port, I got nothing. I cannot see it in ReadyShare, as shown below
And I couldn't explore it either in windows file explorer, as shown below
However, the router can recognize my SanDisk 32gb USB stick with no issue, as shown below
May I ask what's the issue with my SSD in Orico enclosure? Does that mean it's not compatible with the router? Is there any way to resolve this issue?
Thanks a lot!
wuzhemin
11 Replies
Have you tired a different USB drive connected to the router. Maybe a mechanical drive to test and see if something else works?
Are you able to connect the enclosure with the drive to a PC? If it can be accessed there, but not the router, then check the drive using hwinfo64
Download the portable version of hwinfo
https://www.hwinfo.com/download/
It is the middle option with the green download button over a white background.
Once you launch it, check the drives section for the drive enclosure.
and check how it is reporting the drive. Some USB interfaces will act as a passthrough where the system is actually seeing a full on SATA or NVMe drive, e.g., some flash drives do this (though often just passing through a SATA drive which is compatible with a massive range of drvices, except systems runing operating systems from before SATA ports were in use.
For example, i attached an image of the listing for my Sandisk CZ80 USB 3.0 flash drive. On that drive, Sandisk essentially repurposed some of their older SSD hardware and stuffed in low binned NAND to make a 16GB flash drive, and the system sees it as a SATA drive even though it is using USB.
If when you connect the drive enclosure to your PC, if you do not see any drive show up, then check the windows disk manager to see if the drive just hasn't been initialized with a partition table yet, you can do this by searching for disk management in the start menu.
If the drive doesn't show up there, then it could be that your enclosure only supports mSATA rather than NVMe.
Razor512 wrote:Are you able to connect the enclosure with the drive to a PC? If it can be accessed there, but not the router, then check the drive using hwinfo64
Download the portable version of hwinfo
https://www.hwinfo.com/download/
It is the middle option with the green download button over a white background.
Once you launch it, check the drives section for the drive enclosure.
and check how it is reporting the drive. Some USB interfaces will act as a passthrough where the system is actually seeing a full on SATA or NVMe drive, e.g., some flash drives do this (though often just passing through a SATA drive which is compatible with a massive range of drvices, except systems runing operating systems from before SATA ports were in use.
For example, i attached an image of the listing for my Sandisk CZ80 USB 3.0 flash drive. On that drive, Sandisk essentially repurposed some of their older SSD hardware and stuffed in low binned NAND to make a 16GB flash drive, and the system sees it as a SATA drive even though it is using USB.
If when you connect the drive enclosure to your PC, if you do not see any drive show up, then check the windows disk manager to see if the drive just hasn't been initialized with a partition table yet, you can do this by searching for disk management in the start menu.
If the drive doesn't show up there, then it could be that your enclosure only supports mSATA rather than NVMe.
Hi,
I tried your tool. And I do see my Kioxia is listed under SATA. See the attached picture.
So is this the reason my router doesn't recognize it?
Hmm, so it is detecting a capacity and showing itself as a SATA device. The router should have full support for drives showing as using a SATA interface.
Are you able to access the drive using the file explorer? If it does not have a drive letter, then you will need to create a partition table as well as a partition for the drive as the router does not offer an option to format drives.
