Can I use both a USB disk drive and a USB printer through a USB hub attached to the NAS?
2031815
It have to be one or the other because it only have one port but I have never tried that configuration that your reffering to
1567771
I'm not sure. Perhaps you can just attach both drives and use windows to copy the files.
2181002
didn't try that, but i don't see why not. with a separate usb hub of course.
1277820
It will support up to 4 devices, but you'd need a USB hub since there's only one USB port on the server. I know you can access multiple data storage devices, and it will do 3 USB drives + 1 printer. But I haven't tried connecting and individually accessing more than one printer. BTW: mine works fine from our Windows 8.1 computer as well as our others that are all running Windows 7.
259040
Sorry...don't know. I only have a Synology NAS, so no experience on the external USB HDs
821833
Yes but make sure the drivers for the USB connect are available for printer first!
2146478
I don't think so. Unless you could figure out a way to network a USB device but at that point you're better off buying a product meant to be a NAS. FYI, my unit failed after 1 month. Don't buy this product.
944540
That would require a print server instead of a hub. Puts the printer on a network. Easy to do.
1864961
Genevieve, I would think it would fine as long as the devices on the USB hub don't require much power to operate, but any device that gets its power only from the USB port and has no power supply of its own could suffer, but I just don't know for sure since all I used it for was a printer and the printer has its own power of course. I wish I could give you a definitive answer on the power part, but I'm sure it would work with a USB hub just fine, especially if the hub has a power supply for itself.
2114695
I believe you can. The USB hub splits the power and therefore it will probably take longer to charge both devices simultaneously. However, it should work. My opinion is based on powering a printer and a external disc drive using the Hub with no noticeable loss of function.
1690212
There are NAS drives that also have USB ports but most of the affordable ones I have seen don't let you use the network and ethernet simultaneously. So with that it would just be unplug the USB, update over ethernet, plug the USB back in. As long as you have 2 sets of cables, I don't think unhooking the drive and hooking it into the computer is a big deal myself...
1581174
You can still use this printer with USB, wireless is a new feature that is sometimes more convenient for network use. As to price, it is a very good value.
1290045
No. Only one computer can connect to a USB hub at a time. This is not a network hub or network router.
62655
One added note: I'm using a Hawking HMPS2U 4 port USB Hub and it works outstanding. Just remember to get everything working direct first. Then when you install the USB Hub, it'll recognize all the printers you want wireless via the USB Hub.
81669
Yes you can. You connect to your Synology box via network as usual and the USB drive will appear as folder named 'usbshare1'. Once USB drive is connected, it mounted and shared automatically by the Synology.
1815470
It doesn't support daisy chaining but some more expensive drives do. So use usb hub.
2274441
The NAS adapter will only recognize drives that are formatted as FAT. Most likely your drives are NTFS (for 2TB). But, if you had 4 USB sticks connected to a hub, you may be ok.