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Nighthawk R800P firmware needs an update
I read this article, https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Wi-Fi-5-AC-Routers/ALL-Netgear-USB-Drive-Mapping-Issues-ReadyShareConnect-exe/m-p/1426376#M71945, which covers a firmware update for o...
FURRYe38 said that my concern about getting a firmware update was up to netgear, so it's up to them and I should ask them. I get that but saw another R-router owner (I think an R9000, slightly higher-end model than mine) post that his router received a firmware update after posting about the exact issue that I'm concerned about. I'm not paying netgear to read an email from me (a.k.a. support) for something that should be addressed by pushed software/firmware updates.
Your router is the R8000P. It came out in 2017. Not quite "EOL" but getting there.
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You asked for an update to the firmware to support SMBv3.
There won't be major updates like that.
Netgear's implementation of USB support has always been flaky. With little sign of improvements. And most new routers don't offer that feature.
Many people happily use SMBv1. Yes, there are security issues. Partly because Microsoft imposes increasingly rigid security on people to cover issues, some of which rarely, if ever, appear in the real world.
One router user recently complained here that SMBv1 didn't work any more. So Netgear seems to have done what it can to protect that router. (They ended up rolling back the firmware to reconnect their USB drives.)
For bullet proof security – or as near as possible – ditch USB and go for NAS, as FURRYe38 recommended. Or investigate third part firmware, as plemans suggested.