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Vine-Leaf
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Jan 03, 2020
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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...
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    Vine-Leaf
    Jan 21, 2020

    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.