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autigers1970
Nov 16, 2016Aspirant
USB attached storage with WNDR4500
I have a Netgear WNDR4500 that has two USB ports on the back for USB attached storage or printers. I have a new Seagate Expansion external USB hard drive I'd like to use with it to create network at...
- Retired_MemberNov 16, 2016
Drive's require resources, Router USB resources are limited, compared to a USB port on a PC when the 4500 was designed YEARS ago the hard drives were 250Gb or less....now drives average 4tb and a router designed years ago Doesn't have the resources required to support larger drives.
autigers1970
Nov 16, 2016Aspirant
Wow, that is a short list of hard drives that will work. Don't understand why any USB hard drive, properly formatted, won't connect.
Retired_Member
Nov 16, 2016Drive's require resources, Router USB resources are limited, compared to a USB port on a PC when the 4500 was designed YEARS ago the hard drives were 250Gb or less....now drives average 4tb and a router designed years ago Doesn't have the resources required to support larger drives.