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