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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 th...
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.
- I have no issue with it if directly connected to PC, working flawlessly and I can explore it, and reading and writing are both working fine. Just the not working on router.
In hwinfo64, if you check the ports section and examine each root hub for each controller until you find the port that the SSD is connected to, which driver is your PC using for it?
Overall, the goal is to figure out if the system used generic drivers to get it working right, or if it used anything more specialized.
If it works with generic drivers, then there is not much in the way preventing it from working on the router unless there is some weird issue with the mass storage driver being used by the router and itsinteraction with that eclosure. In which case, it would be good for Netgear to look into it and add support.
PS one thing to also consider is that the storage drivers used will not make use of TRIM, thus unless the SSD has its own built in garbage collection process, once all of the NAND is "dirty" the write performance will become quite low.
Also noticed one thing, the drive you connected is likely the RTL9210. as the drive in your image is showing as a 4TB drive and not a 1TB drive.
The RTL9210 is an NVMe to USB adapter.