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Router with USB external hard drive as file server
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I think rather than a router, what you want to look for is a Network Hard drive.
Other than that routers just don't have the interfaces to connect to a hard drive let alone be able to share it to your network.
Network Hard drives have the necessary hardware to receive an IP address, and be accessible through the network.
Your other choice of course is to connect the USB drive to a PC and then share it out to the Network. Though that requires the PC the drive is connected to be be on when any of the other PC's want to access the drive.
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
Other than that routers just don't have the interfaces to connect to a hard drive let alone be able to share it to your network.
Network Hard drives have the necessary hardware to receive an IP address, and be accessible through the network.
Your other choice of course is to connect the USB drive to a PC and then share it out to the Network. Though that requires the PC the drive is connected to be be on when any of the other PC's want to access the drive.
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
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Yeah, something like this:
Or this:
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
Or this:
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
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XFS is another file system like FAT or NTFS. Originally used with Silicon Graphic's IRIX operating system its now mostly used with Linux Based Operating Systems.
However I don't think the file system on the HD in any way matters to the router, and or the network storage enclosures.
As long as the operating system accessing the drive can read NTFS.
Though it is intriguing that they specifically list FAT, XFS, and SAMBA as supported.
Makes you wonder how they manage the interfaces.
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
However I don't think the file system on the HD in any way matters to the router, and or the network storage enclosures.
As long as the operating system accessing the drive can read NTFS.
Though it is intriguing that they specifically list FAT, XFS, and SAMBA as supported.
Makes you wonder how they manage the interfaces.
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.
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