Using USB Hard Drives on the Apple Airport Extreme 802.11n

A quick overview on how to share external USB Hard Drives, using the Apple Airport Extreme Wireless Point, so that the drive is accessible over your wireless network.

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• 802.11n
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[MacGeek35]

Dont you think USB is slow though??

[iftibashir]

@MacGeek35 - It is, which is why I use these drives via FireWire or eSATA if possible. Nevertheless, Ive upgraded my setup with a NAS - see my other videos!

[brace110]

Please answer this,

If I put movies on my external hard disk and connect it to a Airport extreme, will I be able to view and play the files on my PC that is connected to only wifi. (and power)

[iftibashir]

@brace110 - Yes, it will be like a shared drive - you could map a new drive to the external HDD via the AEBS and access it wirelessly. Whether you can play the movie depends on the quality of the movie and your wireless speed.....I regularly play 720p movies over my Wireless N network perfectly fine ;o)

[skittb89]

good review but there is one thing i wonder.. if you connect a USB drive to your airport extreme, what are the read/write speeds? are they the same as connecting it directly to your Mac's USB (60 MB/s) or is it slower then that?

[iftibashir]

@skittb89 - Speeds are around the same. If accessing wirelessly etc, then speed will be slower depending on your wireless connection speed. I no longer use this setup, but use a NAS instead - see my others videos for details!

[enduser1980]

Awesome videos, one quick question:

I have the airport extreme and i'm going to attach an external drive to it, I was thinking about getting a WD My Book Live connected via ethernet, or is this setup redundant? Could I just use a regular external HD and connect via USB? The important thing for me is WOL (wake on lan), because my ATV2 will be reading media from this drive having the external that is connected to the Airport automatically turn on is really importan.

Any help would be great

[datg1234]

how do you find the hard drive on windows7?



[TalesOfWar]

@Atlanta15Braves We say "rooter" in the UK, a "row-ter" is something you cut wood with to make grooves and stuff lol.

[Atlanta15Braves]

rooter? I am assuming that you mean ROUTER lol

[tiznado22]

great video. just what i was searching for. one question:

can the airport extreme work with the ps3? can the ps3 find it to play video files? Thanks

[Tjmarkson]

I got my Airport Extreme 5th Generation yesterday. I attached a USB drive and Printer using a hub. The drive was showing up in the Airport utility but I could not figure out how to access it. Finally after seeing you just goto Finder I found my USB drive. Thanks very much.

[thinkourlife]

I have a question Can I plug in my broadband to the usb port on the apple airport coz at home I'm only use broadband to surf to the internet. I do Internet Sharing on my mac as server but yet.. not that awesome.. ping me up because I'm going to buy this soon!

[james95121]

For some reason I can't see my hard drive on finder although airport utility does