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    ASUS AC5300 Tri-Band WiFi Gaming Router(Up to 5330 Mbps) w/MU-MIMO, Supporting AiProtection Network Security Trend Micro, AiMesh Mesh WiFi System, Built-in WTFast Game Accelerator (RT-AC5300)

    • I have many folders on an external hard drive plugged into a USB port on the router
    • And on top of that, it can even scan your attached hard drive for errors.
    • Also tried using a connected USB hard-drive for Time Machine backup and never could get it to work
    • Ive even added on a portable hard drive to the
    • F*** crazy, driving me nuts spending $300 for a supposedly best router and get to spend time trying to fix it to no avail
    • I connected an external USB 3.0 hard drive which is supposed to peak at over 100 MiB/
    • useful mediaserver with hard drive (backing up my
    • The most peculiar thing is that according to CrystalDiskMark USB 2.0 (second screenshot) can be faster than USB 3.0 (first screenshot) for my hard drive in some situations
    • Ive even added on a portable hard drive to the
    • If you have mapped hard drive arrays, the router will not always connect to them - even if you make the SSID static
    • I had issues with ASUS long ago involving a motherboard that fried 3 hard drives even though I RMA'd and had replaced it three times
    • but I think most of my hard drives are slow
    • You can plug in an external hard drive and share it using SMB or FTP protocol
    • After every firmware update I have to hard reset the unit, and after the Firmware Version:3.0.0.4.384_32738 Samba share no longer functions and if I connect a hard drive the unit power cycles
    • I will likely just write this POS router off as a loss, trash it, and buy a good Netgear or D-Link.
    • , i so mad dont even want to replace it