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Aspirant

Dec 29, 2020

C7800 not recognizing SSD

I bought a Sandisk sdssde60-1T00 1TB SSD external drive, My Macinstosh recognizes it just fine. I want to use Readyshare to share the SSD throughout my home users. When I plug in the SSD, the rou...

Guru - Experienced User

Dec 30, 2020

Try NTFS?

mtcsox
Aspirant
Dec 30, 2020
I don't have that as an option (see screen shot)
- FURRYe38
  Guru - Experienced User
  Dec 30, 2020
  Try exFAT
  - antinode
    Guru
    Dec 30, 2020
    > Try exFAT
    
       The one popular file system which is _not_ in the list of supported
    file systems in the C7800 User Manual? Not what I'd expect to work.
    
       Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
    for Documentation. Get the User Manual. Read. Look for "USB Storage
    Device Requirements".
    
    > I don't have that as an option (see screen shot)
    
       Right. macOS doesn't offer NTFS natively. Find a Windows system,
    and do it there?
    
       I don't use (or trust) ReadySHARE, and I haven't done anything with a
    real SSD, so I know nothing, but I would not be amazed if an SSD
    identified itself with a device-type code (or some other characteristic)
    which the (lame) Netgear firmware does not recognize as belonging to a
    mass storage device. I'd try an ordinary (rotating) disk drive or a
    simple flash-EEPROM gizmo, with some supported file system, and see if
    it can cope with one of those. If it works with non-SSD devices, and
    the docs don't mention "SSD", then I'd take that as a hint.