Hi guys,
Just wanted to know your opinion on using a portable HDD as NAS. I recently got hold of a Asus RT-N66U and I've been itching to attach a hard drive to it as a NAS. But I don't have a proper NAS at hand so I used one of my extra portable drives. It went okay for the first couple of weeks but not without some hiccups accessing the drive. Not sure if it's the router's issue or not. Then one day, I couldn't access it at all and the drive seemed to fail. Weirdly enough.. it only failed when attached to the router. When attached to a machine, it works. So I decided to use my old desktop external storage and so far I haven't encountered any hiccups of sorts.
Does anyone have any thoughts? I'm thinking that it's an access with power thing (external desktop hdd always has power and the portable external relies on the USB power). But other people may have some other experience. Thanks in advance guys!
Just wanted to know your opinion on using a portable HDD as NAS. I recently got hold of a Asus RT-N66U and I've been itching to attach a hard drive to it as a NAS. But I don't have a proper NAS at hand so I used one of my extra portable drives. It went okay for the first couple of weeks but not without some hiccups accessing the drive. Not sure if it's the router's issue or not. Then one day, I couldn't access it at all and the drive seemed to fail. Weirdly enough.. it only failed when attached to the router. When attached to a machine, it works. So I decided to use my old desktop external storage and so far I haven't encountered any hiccups of sorts.
Does anyone have any thoughts? I'm thinking that it's an access with power thing (external desktop hdd always has power and the portable external relies on the USB power). But other people may have some other experience. Thanks in advance guys!