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johnaduk
Sep 11, 2012Aspirant
WD My Book Essential 3TB USB 3.0 and NV+ v2
I naively bought a WD My Book Essential 3TB USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) for use as a backup drive for my NV+ v2 (with 3 x 3TB WD drives inside), having used a number of different USB 2.0 drives in th...
Zaim
Apr 08, 2013Aspirant
StephenB wrote: Ok. So the goal is to extend the storage capacity for the NAS? (sharing the external drive?)
Basically yeah, the idea was to be able to have access to the drive for media streaming and being able to copy files to it and remove when needed. I could just hook it up to my Sony Blu-ray player via USB but it won't show up on the network.
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