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TonyLinguini
Aspirant
Oct 23, 2015

Trying to use external MyBook for network backup

I tried to use my old MyBook to do thia and it would not show up. I tried a thumb drive and it showed up fine. So I researched on this site and found a different model suposedly compatible. I bought ...
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TonyLinguini
Aspirant
Oct 26, 2015

It was NTFS, but it was 3TB. I separated it to 2 - 1.5TB partitions and it saw it fine. However, it is not practical to use it for network backup because it is sl-o-o-o-o-w. Thank you.

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vkdelta
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Oct 26, 2015

TonyLinguini

 

which device do you have?

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    TonyLinguini
    Aspirant
    Oct 27, 2015

    CG3000Dv2

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      vkdelta
      NETGEAR Employee Retired
      Oct 27, 2015

      generally NTFS is slow on the Cable gateways (since most of them use opensource NTFS-3G driver). what speeds are you seeing?

       

      can you please try FAT or EXT formatted drives?

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        TonyLinguini
        Aspirant
        Oct 27, 2015

        Horribly slow. Connected to computer 20 minutes, through the router 6 hours. I am not interested in stepping backwards in format to make this work, please consider this answered.