I have a 3TB external hard drive hooked up to it sharing all of my files to my household

The EA4500 supports USB 2.0 (alas, not 3.0) and I was able to use my Seagate Expansion 2 TB USB 3.0 Desktop External Hard Drive with no issues, though others seem to have had issues with WD externals.

Nice support for a hard drive to provide in-router network attached storage

* Attaching a USB Hard Drive works well.

I have some DVD image files on the hard drive that are 7+ gigs

It's like having another hard drive in my laptop

The E4200 V2 had a very limited list of supported USB hard drives:[

It works flawlessly and I love have shared and internet access to the hard drive I plugged into the USB port

The speed was fast and I've even had no trouble streaming video from my external usb hard drive onto my samsung led tv

The hard drive issues shook my faith in its USB port's reliability but since I was able to troubleshoot it, I'm holding on to this device

some troubleshooting with my hard drive, I was able to access my files and get them off my hard drive, so it's not all bad

The USB port allows you to connect an external hard drive, however, in order to access it over the network IS A NIGHTMARE

I had some issue with my hard drive that I connected to the USB port.

but occasionally I have had problems with retrieving the contents of my hard drive from my laptop.

Supposedly, this router is compatible with my Western Digital MyBook hard drive.

Please be aware that if you are planning on using the EA4500 (or perhaps any in the series) as a DLNA server with a USB hard drive, that the router is limited to serving a maximum of 8000 files.

Then I tried reformatting the hard drive, because I have never had problems with it, and now the router will delete any files added to it

My issue is it won't recognize my Seagate portable hard drive, the primary reason I bought this

However, when I hooked up the hard drive, I noticed that some of my media files started changing into folders with 0 kb of data!

TO PLUG AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE (2 TB) INTO THE

But I have an external hard drive, nest thermostat, and IP camera that are constantly dropping off the network

This version only supports hard drives connected the router USB port.

I got this router to have something that I can plug an external hard drive to and then use it as a networks storage device, and also connect from remotely using FTP.As a router, this works a lot better than the Belkin models

I use it for network storage on an external hard drive.

Apple very easily plus the usb hard drive

The USB port for sharing an external hard drive is handy

My issue is it won't recognize my Seagate portable hard drive, the primary reason I bought this

5/5The reason I spent this much on a router was because I wanted to stream media between computers and from a hard drive attached to the EA4500's USB port

I recently decided to put all my media files on an external hard drive, mainly to free up space on my internal drive on the desktop, which I need more for work than personal media

Beyond DLNA, network access to the USB storage was completely unreliable (that same drive is completely reliable when shared through another device).

I never like giving out my password, so the router generally will create randomized passwords for the guest account (typically including some sort of fruit in the password, which I found humorous)NAS-type (Network attached storage) features with an external hard drive work great when it isn't corrupting your hard drive

The same hard drive works fine with the E3000

Plus Backup external hard drive 3TB-3 Western Digital external hard drives (2TB & 1TB)-iPad 2

I don't like that because that could potentially kill my hard drive.

The only help that Linksys Support could provide consisted in formatting the drive, but this failed to eliminate the offending program.

I attached an external hard-drive to the

I have my wireless hard drive plugged in to the usb

THE CONNECTED HARD DRIVE FROM MY

When i attempt to move or copy files off of the attached storage device (a Cisco-approved compatible Seagate external hard drive), the music files magically turn into empty folders of the same name (e.g., a folder named "song.m4a"), which then requires that I retrieve the CD in order to import the lost songs all over again.

i7-970 Extreme PC with SLI and 8GB ram, duel 600GB Velocity WD 10,000RPM hard drive), then IT IS DONE

It would not consistently recognize the USB hard drive I had attached to it and after a few months the drive was corrupted and could not be accessed at all.

I'm planning on picking up a USB hard drive to take advantage of the network storage capabilities of this unit, I'll update this review when I do

I love that you can connect a hard drive via USB and use it as a server drive for all your devices

If you plan to hook up a hard drive and access your data via the router, do not buy this model.

One day later my drive was corrupted

So if you put a lot of photos on the hard drive as well as your music and videos, leave the settings at default (to scan the whole drive

It's like having another hard drive in my laptop

I reformatted the hard drive to remove any issues that the router may have put on it

The problem is with the feature that allows the user to hook an external hard drive up to the router and access that external hard drive from all computers.

I was able to add a hard drive to it and have it stream to other devices with no problems (Save for network issue)

Since owning this router it has destroyed several gigabytes of data in the hard drive I attached, while searching for a way to resolve this problem I discovered many others having similar problems.

The bottom line is that this router will randomly destroy the files on your external hard drive by turning them into empty folders.

For instance, using it as a media hub, connecting a USB hard-drive to stream media...but maybe sometime before the year is out.

2/5I used Cisco Connect to connect my 1.5TB Seagate GoFlex external hard drive to the EA4500

However, when I decided to relocate my router, it stopped recognizing the hard drive

First, whenever I plugged in external hard drive, the drive would never sleep.

(And that includes a cheap $30 wireless router a few years back)The USB software is glitchy and tends to delete media files off of your hard drive

I use all 4 of the network ports and have a portable hard drive on the USB

When I switched out my old Linksys, I hooked up my external hard drive, all my media servers, and loved this.

I have 3 PC's running Windows XP, 1 laptop with Vista, 2 Droid phones, a network printer and a USB External 3 TB Hard Drive.

I got this Linksys router to replace an lower model and like the ability to plug my hard drive into the USB port

And port forwarding was under a tab named "Apps and Gaming".I connected an external hard drive to the USB

This drive has backup from last 5 years and I could not afford to lose anything

THE CONNECTED HARD DRIVE FROM MY SMART

I can even see the Seagate GoFlex 3TB External Hard Drive that other reviewers said they couldn't see.

One plus however, was the handling of DLNA streaming with a USB external hard drive.

Here I have to add a caveat: the drive that I intended to connect to the router was a 2T Elite WD Drive, which includes a WD software that asks for a password before connecting the drive.

I use all 4 of the network ports and have a portable hard drive on the USB

I plugged my external hard drive to the USB port of the EA4500 and it was detected automatically

I really love that you can connect an external hard drive to the USB and easily create a network drive.

Range is better than my previous older generation and overheating D-Link, something expectedI've had this router for about 6 month

Customer service is HORRIBLE, yes, H O R

To anyone reading my review, please see my update at the bottom of this page as I no longer have confidence in this device, nor can I recommend this product to anyone.**************************************************************************************************************************************************I purchased this router a year ago to replace our aging WRT54g after we moved into our home last year and we needed a router that could adequately handle both our wireless needs for our laptops, Roku boxes, iPhones, iPads, and Kindles, but also handle our MoCa based wired Ethernet network that has one media server, a desktop

Much better coverage than my Cisco E-4200 I replaced.