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Does readyshare even work on the Nighthawk R7000? USB Drive not detected.
First off. I have at least one usb hard drive that is on the compatibility list. Windows 10 64bit and newest Netgear R7000 firmware. Cant remember the version. I bought the router about 8-10 mont...
I got it to work with a 125GB Usb Drive.
If you have a NAS storage device you should be connecting this by ethernet cable to your router, not usb. If it is usb only then it is an external hard drive, not NAS.
Netgear have a compatibility list for hard drives, which can be found here
Basic rules of thumb is if you would need to install drivers on a pc for your hard drive to work it probably won't work with netgear ready share routers
I understand that it is not a real "NAS" but hoped you would catch my drift. One of my usb hard drives is on the compatible list and the other is not but they both showed up at some point in the Netgear UI.
Netgear GUI often recognises the name of the device when looking at attached usb devices, however having read/write access to them is another matter
For the drive that is on the list, once set up what happens on your pc when your browse to //readyshare in windows explorer ?
Do you see USB_Storage?
No. I have tried to browse to \\readyshare and nothing is detected. Almost as if the drive is unplugged.
I tried plugging in a Samsung SSD External Hard Drive and none of the USB lights turn on. I do not know what the deal is.