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RonSchmiege's avatar
RonSchmiege
Tutor
Jan 24, 2016

USB drives that work with RN104 & firmware 6.4.1 +

Anyone know which USB drives work properly with RN104 & firmware 6.4.1 and up. (Also if you know of one that doesn't work.) I need to replace my USB backup drive, a Seagate GoFlex with USB 3.0 which ...
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BrianL2's avatar
BrianL2
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jan 25, 2016

Hi RonSchmiege,

 

The RN100 series devices have one front port, USB version 2.0, and 2 rear ports, USB version 3.0.  It recognizes USB drives with FAT32, EXT3/4, NTFS and HFS format. 

 

Hope this helps!

 

 

Kind regards,

 

BrianL
NETGEAR Community

StephenB's avatar
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jan 25, 2016
BrianL2 wrote:

 

The RN100 series devices have one front port, USB version 2.0, and 2 rear ports, USB version 3.0.  It recognizes USB drives with FAT32, EXT3/4, NTFS and HFS format. 

 

 

btrfs was just added to 6.4.2 beta.

Skywalker wrote:
  1. [Beta 1] Recognize BTRFS filesystems in USB drives.

 

BTW, all this should be in the software manual (and not just the data sheet).  It isn't.

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