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With an attached USB drive and ReadyShare, you are limited to individual folders with a size of 196MB.
The most likely use for attached storage is to attach USB drive for backup purposes, as opposed to file sharing or the storage of individual files. There is no possibility of backing up anything except the smallest of devices in 196MB, and possibility to set up auto-backup of any system to the shared drive.
The GUI for ReadyShare indicates the total space of the folder, but does not provide any way to create folders / volumes to the size of the attached drive. The suggestion is to make ReadyShare more useful, like a NAS drive. I am not looking or expecting high performance throughput, simply the ability to use the attached storage as a backup device.
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c_k wrote:
With an attached USB drive and ReadyShare, you are limited to individual folders with a size of 196MB.
Not here. I have an 8TB attached USB drive on an R7800 router and a 4TB drive on an R7000P router. Both drives have folders that are many GB in size.
c_k wrote:
The suggestion is to make ReadyShare more useful, like a NAS drive.
That's exactly how it works in my case.
michaelkenward - thanks for your comments. I went back and forward with Netgear support several times before posting here. They believed this was a limitation. I'm interested in finding out more about your exact configuration to see if I can get this working.
The router is an AC3200. I'm using a new 5TB Seagate drive, which has a single partition formatted with exFAT. The drive works perfectly when connected direct to a desktop.
Can you please tell me more about your drives and how you were able to set these up to see all the available space?
You have asked Netgear to implement something that is already available. This is not the place to troubleshoot problems.
You would do better to take your issue to the appropriate part of this community.
Find the right place for the AC3200 (AC3200 is not a reliable guide to model number. Many devices come with an AC tag, but it is essentially a label that Netgear, and other brands, attach to hardware to describe wifi speeds. Look at the label on the device for the model number.)
Perhaps it is a Nighthawk router.
I am doing exactly what Netgear support suggested, when they told me that the functionality I was trying to configure was not available.
And I have said that it works.
Please raise this as a problem in the appropriate section.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but are you saying you know more than Netgear Support? They spent a lot of time on the issue, and escalated this to their engineering group who confirmed this may not work and they suggested it be raised as a possibility for enhancement.
Please take your problem to somewhere that does not get in the way of this section, which is where people can ask for new features..
I don't know what you told Netgear, or what they told you. I do know that your original suggestion is hopelessly off beam. Please see my earlier response.
Before you ask for help, you might like to work out exactly what Netgear hardware you own. AC3200 tells us not much.
ReadySHARE USB storage
A folder that contains 201 GB.
