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aliyallah
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Dec 15, 2019

ReadyNAS vs US storage

Good evening all

I bought the AX12 RAX120 two days ago and I have been very frustrated with it. My whole goal is to attach a storage drive to it so I could reduce my dependance on Dropbox. I tried to connect to READYSHARE.NETGEAR.COM for two days straight to no avail. I finally called Tech support and instead they had me connect to Readycloud. It seems ready cloud is for NAS and not a USB storage drive connected to the modem. So my questions are:

 

Is it possible to convert the USB storage device attached to the Nighthawk into a NAS? If so how?

With the USB storage device, is it possible to have files automatically synch to a folder a I created on the drive? All the steps I saw on Youtube are related to NAS. I don't see how to sync files using the connection I have. 

 

Is it possible to have my photos on my Apple iPhone 10 automatically backup to the USB storage? Right now I am able to achieve all the above using dropbox. 

 

Thank you in advance for your help. If you need further details, please let me know. 

 

Thanks, ali. 

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  • michaelkenward's avatar
    michaelkenward
    Guru
    Dec 15, 2019
    aliyallah wrote:

    I finally called Tech support and instead they had me connect to Readycloud. It seems ready cloud is for NAS and not a USB storage drive connected to the modem.

     

    ReadyCloud can also do USB. But first you need to get ReadySHARE to work.

     

    aliyallah wrote:

     

    Is it possible to convert the USB storage device attached to the Nighthawk into a NAS?

     

    USB, or ReadySHARE, is a basic version of NAS. It can never hope to be as good as a proper Ethernet NAS.

     

    Before you can get anything approaching informed advice, you will have to tell people what the USB devices are.

     

    This might also be useful:

     

    Will my USB drive work with ReadySHARE | Answer | NETGEAR Support

     

     

    aliyallah wrote:

    With the USB storage device, is it possible to have files automatically synch to a folder a I created on the drive? All the steps I saw on Youtube are related to NAS. I don't see how to sync files using the connection I have. 

     

    Possibly not with anything built into the router, but the right software on your devices might do it. ReadySHARE Vault might hack it for Windows, but a mobile device isn't the same thing.

     

    A good place to start would be the manual and what it says about ReadySHARE.

     

    If you visit the support pages:

     

    Support | NETGEAR

     

    you can feed in the model number and find all the documentation for your hardware.