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<blockquote data-quote="PGB1" data-source="post: 1927182" data-attributes="member: 76746"><p><span style="color: rgb(44, 130, 201)"><em>From Lifeisabeach: I don‘t know of any routers, other than Apple’s Airports, that allow connecting a drive for use on a network.</em></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">The TP-Link guy said their routers can connect to NAS drives. He spoke of SMB and FTP. I don't know if this is helpful to you, It's way over my head. </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">He also mentioned NAS for using an attached-to-router's USB drive for other non Time Machine storage applications, such as one driven by BackBlaze, iDrive, CrashPlan, etc. </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">He sent me this link: <a href="https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/253/" target="_blank">https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/253/</a></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">The technician said a drive for Time Machine is capable to plug into the USB & use on </span><strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><em><strong>"most"</strong></em></span></strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> of their routers & sent me this link: <a href="https://www.tp-link.com/ae/support/faq/1564/" target="_blank">https://www.tp-link.com/ae/support/faq/1564/</a> (My particular model isn't capable of Time Machine.) </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"></span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Hopefully, this is helpful to someone someday. </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Paul</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PGB1, post: 1927182, member: 76746"] [COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)][I]From Lifeisabeach: I don‘t know of any routers, other than Apple’s Airports, that allow connecting a drive for use on a network.[/I][/COLOR] [COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)]The TP-Link guy said their routers can connect to NAS drives. He spoke of SMB and FTP. I don't know if this is helpful to you, It's way over my head. He also mentioned NAS for using an attached-to-router's USB drive for other non Time Machine storage applications, such as one driven by BackBlaze, iDrive, CrashPlan, etc. He sent me this link: [URL]https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/253/[/URL] The technician said a drive for Time Machine is capable to plug into the USB & use on [/COLOR][B][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)][I][B]"most"[/B][/I][/COLOR][/B][COLOR=rgb(0, 0, 0)] of their routers & sent me this link: [URL]https://www.tp-link.com/ae/support/faq/1564/[/URL] (My particular model isn't capable of Time Machine.) Hopefully, this is helpful to someone someday. Paul[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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