I can't complain about feeling shorted; my eero kit was free. But I was really kind of shocked that this next gen tech can make no use of a USB drive. I ripped out a pair of well functioning but WAF-disapproved Asus RT-66s. I'm happy with the simplicity of this system as well as it's looks and user friendliness, but pulling up short of managing a simple storage medium in the network seems a bit bush league. I used to operate a NAS, network shares, drive cages, etc. (Shiver). I replaced a lot of that with a passport drive plugged into my Asus. It helped the family drop things for each other immensely. Can you not implement a simple (feature lean) private file share for anyone/thing connected to the network? For anyone reading this, what's the next simplest thing I might do here? I don't like running PC's all the time to support a file share. My NAS's are all old and in pieces. I have a plethora of 1-2 TB drives laying around. What's the smartest way to solve the problem of:
'I have a requirement as household IT lackey to have a reliable and persistent (i.e. worthy of configuring across 30+ devices and I won't regret it), minimal cost file share on the home network to which authenticated devices can read and write'
Apr 01, 2020 Most of the drives profiled below are, at their heart, mobile hard drives in an external chassis, equipped with a battery for on-the-go operation. Most also let you pass your Wi-Fi connection.
Wifi External Hard Disk Drives
- Wi-Drive is a truly portable external hard drive that can simultaneously share content with up to three devices. It provides access to drive contents via the official Wi-Drive app, which is available on App Store, Google Play and Kindle Fire.
- This wireless external hard drive supports a simultaneous connection to 8 devices maximum, including PCs, notebooks, smartphones and tablet PCs with the streaming of HD video to each device. You can even connect external storage devices to the wireless HDD to expand the basic storage capacity.
