Trying to use external MyBook for network backup

[TonyLinguini]

I tried to use my old MyBook to do thia and it would not show up. I tried a thumb drive and it showed up fine. So I researched on this site and found a different model suposedly compatible. I bought it but it does not work,

[DarrenM]

Hello Tonylinguini

Have you tried to format the drive and make sure its NTFS and Fat32 file format?

DarrenM

[TonyLinguini]

It was NTFS, but it was 3TB. I separated it to 2 - 1.5TB partitions and it saw it fine. However, it is not practical to use it for network backup because it is sl-o-o-o-o-w. Thank you.

[vkdelta]

@TonyLinguini

which device do you have?

[TonyLinguini]

CG3000Dv2

[vkdelta]

generally NTFS is slow on the Cable gateways (since most of them use opensource NTFS-3G driver). what speeds are you seeing?

can you please try FAT or EXT formatted drives?

[TonyLinguini]

Horribly slow. Connected to computer 20 minutes, through the router 6 hours. I am not interested in stepping backwards in format to make this work, please consider this answered.