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R7000 sees USB 3.0 portable drive not 8TB external drive
This router has both a USB 2 and 3 ports. I plugged a USB 3.0 WD Passport 3 TB drive into the USB 3.0 port. The drive spins up and the indicator light goes on. This drive is formatted NTFS I plu...
I determined that neither of the large WD drives worked. I looked at the netgear support site for the R7000 (https://kb.netgear.com/18985/Will-my-USB-drive-work-with-ReadySHARE)
Based on this I tried the Seagate - Backup Plus Hub 8TB External USB 3.0 (SRD0PV1) Plugged it in and after a while readyshare found it and made it available.
I will use my WD drive as a backup for the shared drive as an extra precaution.
I used the 3.0 front facing USB port. I plan to see if the drive will also connect from the USB 2 port on the back.
Vine-Leaf wrote:
I plug in a MYBook 8TB drive and apply power to the drive. I listen to the drive spin up since it doesn't have a power indicator. Wait about 3 minutes and the indicator light does not come on.
By coincidence:
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In essence, 8TB is bigger than any drive known to work with ReadySHARE.
Thank you. That indeed is probably part of the problem in addition to the wrong format for the disk. I appreciate your help. I think it does work with a 6 TB disk as I had one working earlier in the year.