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  • michaelkenward's avatar
    michaelkenward
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jul 29, 2023
    toraritte wrote:

    I found the official article listing all the Netgear products and the drives they support, but there is no CAX30. I guess it must have a sub-designation that I haven't found yet, so any help to find it would be appreciated.

    That list of routers and USB drives is hopelessly incomplete. The good news is that if a USB drive works with one router, it is likely to work with others, especially if they are in the same family of products.

     

    Working on the basis that the CAX30 is sort of related to the RAX family, if a drive features there, it should be OK in your modem/router.

     

    As all RAX routers seem to support the same drives, you could check out that list.

     

    You'll notice that all the big brands are in there. If one of their drives is listed, then again something in the same family should be OK.

     

    If you have a particular drive that you want to use, then see if anyone here has used it. 

     

    If you do go down that road, try asking in the section for your modem/router rather then the Nighthawk Wi-Fi 5 (AC) Routers: covered here.

     

    Here's where to ask:

     

    Cable Modems & Gateways - NETGEAR Communities

     

     

    • schumaku's avatar
      schumaku
      Guru - Experienced User
      Jul 29, 2023

      Complete obsolete list, useful only for proofing what test engineers are using.

       

      Any USB mass storage device class device (also known as USB MSC or UMS) is a set of computing communications protocols, specifically a USB Device Class, defined by the USB Implementers Forum that makes a USB device accessible to a host computing device and enables file transfers between the host and the USB device. To a host, the USB device acts as an external storage drive; the protocol set interfaces with a number of storage devices.

  • toraritte's avatar
    toraritte
    Aspirant
    Jul 29, 2023

    Thank you for the replies! I initially posted this because no drives seemed to work after I plugged them in (NTFS, Ext4, etc.), but, as it turns out, I should have been more patient... The drives were between 2TB and 4TB, and none of the resources mentioned that they will be scanned first, so it just took a while. After giving the CAX30 some time, all of them worked out.

     

    Thanks again and have a great day!

    • michaelkenward's avatar
      michaelkenward
      Guru - Experienced User
      Jul 29, 2023
      toraritte wrote:

      Thank you for the replies! I initially posted this because no drives seemed to work after I plugged them in (NTFS, Ext4, etc.), but, as it turns out, I should have been more patient...

       

       

      I haven't come across that. Perhaps you are referring to the media server.

       

      Data stuff lands immediately. As long as you have told Windows to do SMB1.