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Deco M5 and External Hard Drive
Deco M5 and External Hard Drive
2020-07-13 21:14:43
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I have a set of 3 Deco M5s and I am looking to see if there is a way to be able to connect my 8 TB external hard drive to my home network that would make it visable to all 3 laptops in the house so I can use the network to backup the important files on each rather than having to plug each laptop in every so often and doing it manually. Obviously, there is no USB port on the M5. If I were to purchase a relatively cheap router with a USB port, could I plug that into one of the beacons with a Cat5 cable and use that to connect the hard drive? Any other ideas that may work?

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Re:Deco M5 and External Hard Drive
2020-07-14 22:07:14 - last edited 2020-07-15 15:52:29

@JP181818 

 

You could do that, might take some tweaking on the firewall, but should be doable. 

 

You could also place the router in front of the main Deco, and switch the Deco to AP Mode.

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Re:Deco M5 and External Hard Drive
2020-07-14 23:00:38

@Tony Thanks for the response. I'll give it shot and see how it goes. 

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2020-09-02 01:32:22

@JP181818 Any luck?

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2020-09-02 02:51:51

@Shazam I ended up picking up a Raspberry Pi and set it up as a NAS.

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