Also tried using a connected USB hard-drive for Time Machine backup and never could get it to work

You can plug in an external hard drive and share it using SMB or FTP protocol

Ive even added on a portable hard drive to the

And on top of that, it can even scan your attached hard drive for errors.

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

I have many folders on an external hard drive plugged into a USB port on the router

If you have mapped hard drive arrays, the router will not always connect to them - even if you make the SSID static

useful mediaserver with hard drive (backing up my

I connected an external USB 3.0 hard drive which is supposed to peak at over 100 MiB/

The router portion of this works great.. however, when connecting a USB 3.0 hard drive to this, and transferring a large file (anything over a few gb or so) results in the CPU load spiking so high that it renders the entire router unresponsive.

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

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

but I think most of my hard drives are slow

F*** crazy, driving me nuts spending $300 for a supposedly best router and get to spend time trying to fix it to no avail

Ive even added on a portable hard drive to the

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