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How to Make External USB Storage Available on Network

guruerror

Version: SFVH (SFOS 17.0.3 MR-3)

Is it possible to attach external storage via USB and make it available to the LAN?

I've demoted my Linksys WRT1900AC to a bridge to gain the added security of having an XG firewall.  The only feature I appear to be 'losing' is the ability to attach my USB RAID storage and make it available to internal network users.

I've done some due diligence in searching the forum (and Google) for ways to make this available under the XG OS, but it would appear that this is not a feature that is currently available.  Can someone please confirm?  ...or let me know if I've missed an option somewhere.

As mentioned above, I'm running SFVH (SFOS 17.0.3 MR-3) on a Dell desktop...so I have available USB ports.

Thanks in advance.



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  • 0 in reply to rfcat_vk

    Do you mean you get 105mbps or 105MB/s on the device?

    it easy to find that DS218j (which is slower than your DS218+) can get 100MB/s or 1Gbps on large file transfer.

    www.smallnetbuilder.com/.../33160-synology-ds218j-ds218play-diskstations-reviewed

    Also if you only get 105mbps i think some thing in your network path is only 100mbps capable. A very common suprise cause of that kind of performance is a low end switch, which can't isolate unicast traffic properly and send traffic to every port on the switch, and add that with a 100mbps device you can only get 100mbps out of that switch, althrough it rated as a 1gbps one.

    The dual nic is mostly use for link redundant. The device is designed for 1gbps, and that is also the network environment in most smb situations can get.

  • 0 in reply to daiqingxu

    No, my device was not a ds series at all and yes the network was capable of running at 1gb/s and was tested between devices on the same switch.

    Anyway we are way off thread.

    Ian