Share Your External Hard Drives Over Your Network

Share Your External Hard Drives Over Your Network
Today we will be showing you how to Add USB Storage Drives to Your Router.

Sabrent 4-Port USB Hub | USB 3.0 Fast Data Hub

SABRENT Powered USB Hub 3.0 13W

Western Digital 14TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive

SanDisk 4TB Extreme Portable SSD

TP-Link AXE5400 Tri-Band WiFi 6E Router (Archer AXE75)

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[aintworking]

A word of warning: I had a usb stick in my tplink router. after last win 11 update, i could no longer connect with router, so I unplugged my usb and plugged in my laptop and all the files were corrupted. Lost a lot of my files, so be careful and make a backup often. Great videos, have learned a lot.

[kamertonaudiophileplayer]

I do that for decades and this video is still handy.

[ramnik.khanna]

@Brian, brilliant!
And here I was connecting a single external device to the USB port of my router! LOL!
The beauty is that you come up with simple, no-brainer solutions, that get people like me thing, "Heck, why didnt I figure that out myself!"
Thanks!

[lindastone]

I've just changed BB supplier, and for the 1st time have a router with USB ports. I can't wait to try this out!

[MR.GM.Goodwrench]

One important piece of advice is if the file manager can't find your drives in TP-Share you'll have to check to see if Windows update turned off your SMB or disabled some of them.
Use ( Turn Windows Features On or Off) typed in the search box. Windows update will do this on all of my network PC's 50% of the time.

My best success with sharing 4 external HDD is with TP-Link routers and a powered 4 port USB hub and the external HDD's are all powered.
I use a TP-Link AX-6000 and 4, 8TB Seagate Backup Plus Hub and Sabrent powered hub.
Cisco and Netgear have always been a big pain. None since I switched to TP-Link.

Brian at 10:45 in the video you said NAS. Did you mean SAN or could it be DAS ? Over all nice video. 👍👍

[Rev-D]

I've been needing a video of this for awhile now; this is perfect!!! Thank you mate for this information. I think I can finally now resolve sharing problems in my home network, which will be great. :) Cheers mate, from central Kansas USA. Be well, stay safe and Gob bless. Rev. D.

[BrightonandHoveActually]

Thanks for this Brian

What I have trouble with is trying to get the USB port working on a slave router that I use to extend my network (it happens to be in a place where there is more space to connect additional external hard drives).

[robert]

Great idea. it really eliminates the hassle of big and chunky device like NAS. For me to do this, I will have to change my Router first because I have tp-link Archer C which does not have the usb. Anyway, I will get it done, because I do not trust the system as systems tends to crash erasing some or all data, so its better to have a backup copy of the data.

[Sirlarrythecat]

Great stuff really informative more please

[jondu-sud]

Thank you Brian, very helpful for a beginner like me.

[DarkstarReborn]

This is a good reminder video of what you can do with a router. I thought about doing this before but forgot. Adding a hub is also a great idea. I have so many old drive just sitting around. If there is a way to add more apps or functionality to the router, it will be great to learn. would like to turn any router into a NAS.

[Utop]

Excellent video but I do have a question. Is it possible to connect an external drive to a network and leave it on and accessible all the time? Are there any problems with doing something like that?

[pavu]

hey there is it possible to acess files outside home network as well?? noob here, just want to store photos and videos from phone to disk as backup

[idmooseman]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. This is the type of setup I want to have for my current PCs. Yes, I want to see more videos like this in the future. In fact, I have a video topic request.

I currently have an external 4TB WD MyBook HDD installed on my primary PC. What would be the process to move this HDD to the router for use as a NAS?

[UnaNeary]

thank you, is there not a way to use the ethernet ports I have 4 of those but no usb port on my router.

[paulwarner]

Thanx for the info. A cheap and easy NAS.

[peterschmidt]

I never even thought about using a USB hub in a router port before Brian! Handy if you don't own a NAS. I suppose you could also access them through Kodi or other media player types on your TV.

The only thing you'd really need to be careful of though is not to leave any of the mechanical drives running 24/7 as you'll shorten their lifespan. That being said, you'll probably still get a couple of years out of one connecting it that way.

[BOKLUK_CHOVEK]

Can U play video from usb of the router directli on smart tv?

[welshtony]

Quite simple for people who dont want to use a NAS device :)

[sarexsarex]

Hi Brian. Very useful video. Would this work by plugging a ssd hdd dock into the router