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Yes, it is an old model - but I'm on Comcast in a small town. I have a 1TB SATA2 drive in a USB SATA3 housing with a USB 3.0 interface, connected to the C3000 with a USB 3.0 cable. I would expect t...
If they had implemented USB 2.0 High Speed, It would have been quite adequate for the home user - but apparently you need a newer model for that. Why did I have such an old model? It was what Comcast supplied me with - and will soon be gone.
You are pointing to the same culprit - the Netgeat monem/router - that advertises its use as a way to connect a shared HDD on a small LAN - wireless and wired. But if it cannot do better than 11mbps on a wired Gigabit LAN, what use is it? But you did hint at an erroneous assumption - this USB HDD housing has its own 1.5A ,12v power source - I need to change connectors on the 2.0 Amp one I want to use, but it works fine anyway, when plugged into the PC, on either USB 3.0 or USB 2.0. It's just slow on Readyshare.
I pointed to the fact the the limit on the Modem is 2.0. Also metioned that how the 3.0 device handles the backwards compatibility is also a factor.
Again. NAS is the way to go. Find one and you'll never look back.
Good Luck.
Undoubtably a better way to go, just pricier. Still, Netgear does advertise Readyshare as a way to do this - but not well, apparently. I'd love for someone to prove me wrong and let me know how to make it work better.
Maybe pricier, however entry level NAS isn't that expensive. A two bay unit isn't costly. Even with todays 4Tb drives that are around $90-100 each. Even using 2Tb drives would be a start on an economical budget. Would be well worth it and save you time and headache. I just bought 4x4Tb drives to upgrade my 1st NAS and just got a 2nd NAS for backup redundancy.
Even if RS was working for you and you had a 2.0 USB drive. Your still limited by USB 2.0 on the modem. Honestly, your wasting your time trying to make 2.0 work for you. Speeds on USB 2.0 will not be good ever. There too much processing by the modem and thus probably causing bad performances. Also the the USB2.0 case would be a factor as well on performance. How good does it do under load. Not great.
If your going with USB 3.0, then you need a seemless USB3.0 environment. Don't mix them. I have a USB3.0 case and also have a 3.0 adapter in my PC. Works well.
Good Luck.Actually, USB 2.0 High Speed is much faster than our PC disk drives can sustain - but you hit on the point I now have to assume is correct- this model does not support any more than the standard - not high speed - USB 2.0 speed of 12 Mbps maximum. Netgear does a poor job of documenting that, though.
But you also bring up affodability - Netgear, and others, decided to include this function into a piece of gear that a performance-oriented home computer user would have anyway - a cable modem = because that is the BEST answer to affordability. And they advertise that as an affordable answer to this particular problem - and it should be more affordable than throwing a humdred or two into a "real" NAS unit. But not at 12 mbps. My next modem WILL support higher speeds; it may NOT be a Netgear product.