topic Re: USB 3.0 Hard Drive for local storage Base unit VMB4540 in Arlo Pro 3

USB 3.0 Hard Drive for local storage Base unit VMB4540

Rich36 — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:21:33 GMT

Has anyone tried connecting a Hard drive USB device with USB 3.0 for local storage? Stats say to use USB 2.0. or type A connection. Only difference between 3.0 and 2.0 is data transfer speed. Is there a data transfer speed restriction for the base unit?

Re: USB 3.0 Hard Drive for local storage Base unit VMB4540

jguerdat — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 15:34:06 GMT

USB 3 offers no advantage since the USB 2 has plenty of speed overhead for recording many cameras at once. That's also why 100Mbps Ethernet is used for hubs/bases - there's no advantage to going faster.

Re: USB 3.0 Hard Drive for local storage Base unit VMB4540

K80Shooter — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 19:03:53 GMT

To answer your question, yes I have mine on a usb 3 hard drive and have no problem with it.

Re: USB 3.0 Hard Drive for local storage Base unit VMB4540

Rich36 — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 14:49:22 GMT

Thanks