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mtcsox
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...
FURRYe38's avatar
FURRYe38
Guru - Experienced User
Dec 30, 2020

Try NTFS? 

mtcsox's avatar
mtcsox
Aspirant
Dec 30, 2020

I don't have that as an option (see screen shot)

  • FURRYe38's avatar
    FURRYe38
    Guru - Experienced User
    Dec 30, 2020

    Try exFAT

    • antinode's avatar
      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.