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[MrGrim999]

Hey guys! I use an external hd to stream video files and needed more space. I was going to get a normal one but I couldn't pass the deal I got on this. I've never owned an NAS drive before and had a couple of questions....

Everytime I try moving a large video file onto it (at least 4 or 5GB) , I receive an error message and have to cancel. Smaller files have no problems. I'm running Win 7 64 bit. If I right click the drive, there's no option to format in NTFS. Anyone here know a way around this?

Also, I was wondering if having a hard drive connected to my router will bog down my speeds at all. I understand if I'm streaming a video but what about when its just in idle?

 

[Elixer]

Depending on the router, the CPU is usually anemic, so, it isn't a very good solution to use that heavily. It is fine for occasional file access though.

How are you connecting the device to your machine?
What exactly is the error message?
If it is formatted in FAT32, then you can't transfer files that big... you need to go into device manager, and select the drive from there, and then reformat it in NTFS.

 

[cfenton]

I own an older version of the MyCloud, but hopefully I can help.

For your first question, try to connect to the drive through your web-browser. Mine defaults to 192.168.1.123, but yours might be different. You should be able to find the ip address in the manual. In the settings you should be able to format it to use NTFS (though it's odd it's not set up that way by default).

Having the drive attached to your router (I'm assuming you mean by ethernet, and not USB) will not slow anything down. If you have a really old router that doesn't support gigabit, then when you're doing big transfers it might slow down a bit, but I doubt you'd notice it for browsing. When it's idle it will use no resources. All the actual processing is done on the drive, not on your router.