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1. NAS VS EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE CONNECTED ROUTER FOR FREE
2. NAS VS EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE CONNECTED ROUTER ARCHIVE

Step-by-step instructions to connect hard drive to the router: You first need to find it in the router’s settings. Then, you can share an external hard drive by mapping it as a network drive over a WiFi network. It took four hours to do on the first router and ten minutes to do it on my parents router. Once you’ve located the USB port on your router, go ahead and attach your USB external hard drive. I installed a USB flashdrive on my TELUS Actiontec v1000h router successfully as a file server available to all on the network. Is there some reason why the My Book Essential will NOT work as a NAS? Because there is no point actually worrying about the router too much, if I'm trying to hook up an inappropriate hard drive.Īnd I wonder if I should have bought this for the extra $20: Specfication of USB drive may not be as suitable for the use case as a drive dedicated for NAS use (eg WD. I guess my basic question is whether the WD My Book Essentials is possible to use as a NAS device. I can't find much online about it, and it's USB capabilities. The storage capacity of external hard drives is static and can't be extended further once a hard drive is full, you either delete unuseful files to have more space for new ones or buy another drive to continue saving your files in there. The brand (I had to look it up because it's just branded Telus on the front) is Actiontec, model V1000H. Because a NAS comprises several hard drives connected together, it has more storage capacity than a single external hard drive. obviously if the Orico presents itself to the NAS diffently then just a USB drive it might cause a problem. When I was transferring 7000 photos from my desktop computer to this EHD over the network it was taking forever - like estimated time was 5 hours. Turning a DAS into a NAS by running it through a router is unlikely to give as good an experience as a genuine NAS with its own OS. Dedicated NAS vs External Hard Drive So I hooked up my WD 4 TB external hard drive to the USB port on my router.

NAS VS EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE CONNECTED ROUTER ARCHIVE

It is dual band and seems to work really well, and has a much better range than my old D-link (DIR-615). USB hard disk enclosure connected to router Archive View Return to standard view.

NAS VS EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE CONNECTED ROUTER FOR FREE

It's some brand I'd never heard of, supplied by Telus for free with my new high speed subscription.

My router is a combination modem/wireless router.