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Piar
Contributor I
July 29, 2024
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Anyone who have found an external harddrive with end-to-end encryption SMB3?

Hi,
I have to buy a new harddrive for the music library - my portable Samsung are to old :) for SMB3.
But - the external drives I found have no specifications for the end-to-end.
I have talked to a couple of suppliers and they have no more information - and have no knowledge about what harddrive do recommend.

So are there any friendly soul here who knows?
I just need 1 TB and I have Windows 11 and the connection in the router is a “classic” USB.

🙏
Pia

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Stanley_4
Stanley_4Answer
Grand Maestro
July 31, 2024

If you have no other issues with your router the NAS is a good option. It can also be a backup storage for other data.

With a NAS it will be in control of all settings, using the router only to provide the communication link.

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Stanley_4
Grand Maestro
July 29, 2024

What exactly do you want?

External hard drive? No SMB needed as it uses the SMB on the device you plug it into.

NAS device? Then you need SMB, pretty much every one out there is going to support SMB v3

 

Do you have a link to the place that listed all the requirements you want to meet?

Try here: https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/add-your-music-library-to-sonos

For a NAS here: https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/use-a-nas-drive-with-sonos

Piar
PiarAuthor
Contributor I
July 30, 2024

Hi Stanley,

ok - it is like this:
Today I got an old external harddrive, Samsung S2 portable (360GB) plugged in to my router. Has been working as a clockwork- until the Sonos update (errorcode 913).

When talking to Sonos support she helped to deactivate SMB1 in my Windows system.

Then the hardddrive disappeard as a network device. 
So - are your saying that it is my router that I have to configure differently?

So for my budget I need a external drive :) (90 dollars)
I have seen that Synology has SMB3 but this NAS is to advanced for me (and to expensive).

Thank you for your answer (and time) - I will check out the links you provided.

Allt gott,

Pia
 

Stanley_4
Grand Maestro
July 30, 2024

Sounds like the Sonos fellow fixed the wrong problem since you aren't using your Windows to share the music.

What you need to do is make the same change, but to your router. You likely don't need to buy anything, and if you did and connected it to the router it still wouldn't work.

The external drive has no part of the SMB process, that is all done by the device it is plugged into.

Piar
PiarAuthor
Contributor I
July 30, 2024

Stanley - thank you for your time and support.
I have after your respons sent an question to my internet-supplier to find out an guide how to
configure the router.
They have only guides for how to install the router and get it up and running.

 

So now I feel (thanks to you) that I have the right directions to continue my quest.

 

Pia

Stanley_4
Grand Maestro
July 30, 2024

Post your router make, model and version, someone here may know how to get the changes made.

 

Piar
PiarAuthor
Contributor I
July 30, 2024

Oh - yes please - if you got the time.
 

Technicolor TG799vac Xtream

I didn´t find any version ...

Stanley_4
Grand Maestro
July 30, 2024

The 799 isn't listed (I think, working from a tablet today)  but a couple others are, might see if anything here helps.

 

https://support.sonos.com/en-us/article/incompatible-network-hardware

Piar
PiarAuthor
Contributor I
July 30, 2024

Will do!

Thank you!

press250
Prodigy III
July 30, 2024

Technicolor TG799vac Xtream

I didn´t find any version ...

Hi @Piar, I found the manual for your router and it does talk using it as a file server with an attached USB drive. It doesn’t talk about which version of SMB it supports, though. Here is the complete manual …

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1281862/Technicolor-Tg799.html

Piar
PiarAuthor
Contributor I
July 30, 2024

Hi Press250!

Thank you - so kind of you!

And extremly quicker than my internet- and router - provider 🙏

Allt gott,

Pia