When I put my hard drive into the router, will the router have to reformat (NTFS?) the drive before it will "see" it and allow me to access it?
1782240
I have used three different drives in it, testing you know, including an SSD and a new drive NTFS formatted from the factory. All drives were recognized and accessible. (FYI: if you want manual control over cooling fan speed, I have the link that will allow it.)
1782241
Fan control (speed): http://routerlogin.net/Thermal_FAN.htm (WNDR4700) - Of course, change at your own risk. If the drive burns out because the fan is to low, well, that's the risk.
1640046
No it cannot by itself. The unit will only stream from your main hard drive inside your computer (usually drive C:). You can stream from an external hard drive connected to your router if you have a media server program that was included with your router's software or with a third party program such as Twonky. However, the formats the player will read are limited and even then it may not read those formats.
1387771
it will work with high end D-Link routers... not older versions. For 3TB you will need to make sure you have the newest firmware. You need to download it from their site before it will recognize higher than 2TB disk drives.
747540
I don't know. I am unsure if the adapter I had works properly. Your system sees something, but if you reformat, you will lose the info on the drive.
940810
It will work just fine as an extra drive. It can be accessed just as you do any internal drive. What you cannot do with the Dashboard software is to do automatic backups if the drive is connected to your router. It should be able to do automatic backups but only if the drive is connected directly to a USB port on your computer.
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Yes, if you reformat the drive, it will wipe out everything. When you set up the USB, you set it up with a password to prevent access to files on your drive.
1661371
The drive app will see the folders; how it interacts w/ your ethernet question is unknown. It should work, but ... connectivity is diceySorry I cannot be more specifici
2109238
Does your router let you put a hardrive on it now to use over your connection? If so then the answer is yes. It comes with a software disc if your on a pc, I configured mine as raid 10 for a mac set up for editing at work. I just used macs disc utility to do so and have had no problems.There are plenty of guides on line depending on how you want to set up your system.
1687481
I put in a drive with data on it and windows wouldn't recognize it unless I formatted it first. Works fine after formatting, but I had to backup all of my data before using the drive.
1632294
I'm not sure. Interesting application, so the whole network could access the drive, but I think you'd have to reach out to the manufacturer for that one.
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the drive is not formatted with any version of windows. it is formatted with a run time version of linux. it handles the formatting. the windows 8 machines should see it in the network browser. did you set up user rights?
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Yes, depending on your setup. It is a hardware raid, so that means that you can set it up so that whichever device you plug it into will just see it as a large hard drive. It really depends on the router. What this device can't do is act as it's own NAS--you essentially just need to think of this device as a large USB hard drive, and then find a solution that works with it.
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No just beet to have / buy a 2.5 sata hd to install inside the unit and attach via LAN to router
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the drive is not formatted with any version of windows. it is formatted with a run time version of linux.it handles the formatting. the windows 8 machines should see it in the network browser. did you set up user rights?
2279797
The drive doesn't haves wifi card, so it needs a wired connection to your router/switch. It can then be accessed wirelessly through your router.
896161
You need to format the drive before use. So if you have some files on it, you will lose that. Beware!!!!!
716600
Try ES File Explorer,w ith it you access any hard drive (including your storage in pc and other external hard drive) in your home network via wifi.