Hey Experts,
I think I may have made a mistake. I recently bought a WD My Book Essentials 2TB with the intention of using it as a NAS. My wireless router has a USB 3.0 plug, and I meant to hook it up directly to the router.
In the meantime I have been using the drive with my desktop for a few weeks. It seems to work fine and the connect (USB 3) is very fast. But now that I am trying to plug it into the router, there appears to be no response. I assumed (wrongly?) that *any* external drive could work as a NAS device if plugged into the router. Now that I've been looking a little harder, it seems that there are specific WD external drives for this purpose.
Was I mistaken? Am I SOL regarding this drive? I don't think I can take it back after using for this long, and I don't need it for just backup duty. What I want is a basic NAS so that all the network can access the media on the drive (music, video, etc...)
Any thoughts?
dave