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Yes, it is an old model - but I'm on Comcast in a small town. I have a 1TB SATA2 drive in a USB SATA3 housing with a USB 3.0 interface, connected to the C3000 with a USB 3.0 cable. I would expect t...
If they had implemented USB 2.0 High Speed, It would have been quite adequate for the home user - but apparently you need a newer model for that. Why did I have such an old model? It was what Comcast supplied me with - and will soon be gone.
Some USB 2.0 ports don'tsupport USB 3.0 device. Also with some USB 3.0 devices, may not be backwards comaptible with USB 2.0. You may need to find a USB 2.0 drive to test with.
Actually, downward compatibility is part of the USB standard - but you could be right; my old USB disk housing was USB 2.0, and that systtem worked better than this one with a newer and faster USB housing and HDD. But there is no problen with the USB 3.0 housing running on a USB 2.0 port - file trransfer runs at 200 mbps when I plug the new housing into a USB 2.0 port on the PC - that's fast enough for access to a backyp storage device. But the old USB unit only supported PATA drives, and I ran out of those. This one (LaCie) at least has air holes for cooling the drive. But I cannot find a solution for the 20X performance loss; file transfer running at 11 mbps (a number I've seen mentioned elsewhere in these many pages of Readyshare performance complaints) is a pathetic rate when you want to use it for an online backup drive. And I don't see any decent answers, other than yours - that the modem/router can't handle a USB 3.0 device that is running on 2.0 speeds to accomodate the Netgear unit. I don't think I will buy a Netgear uhit again.