Official HCL for external USB?

StephenB wrote:
Netgear doesn't provide USB HCL, so all you can get is community feedback.

Why the hell doesn't it, though? When I bought my Duo v2, I naively assumed that I'd be able to plug in my existing 500Gb Iomega USB hard drive - after all, why wouldn't I? It works perfectly well with any PC I've ever connected it to - and was surprised and annoyed to find that it didn't work. It was only after a bit of digging that I found out about this whole issue.

Maybe it's just me, but given what I'd consider to be a fairly major problem I'd have thought Netgear would have fallen over themselves to provide a decent list of known working USB drives.

I'm still in the position of having to buy another USB drive myself, but after all I've read here I'm still totally unclear about which model I can safely buy and am nervous about doing so. Bizarre.

There is a list for the Duo v2: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=66486

There are way too many different USB drives out there to test them all.

mdgm wrote:
There is a list for the Duo v2: [url]http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=66486[/url

]Mm, and I'll probably have to pick one off that; but reading the forum generates enough posts by people who've had problems with drives listed there to make me worried about dropping my cash on one.

There are way too many different USB drives out there to test them all.

Why would Netgear need to test them all? They provide an official list of about 50 HDDs approved for use inside the NAS; why on earth can't they do similar for USB drives?

I still don't get why it seems to be the exception rather than the rule that a bog-standard USB drive will work.

As a newbie here - I can understand this frustration as it is the same problem I am trying to sort for somebody else.

I just posted this on the WDD thread as my first post re the WD MyPassport drives..:

http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=71608

(I am not allowed to post URL's apparently)