Check with the manufacturer of the USB hard disk drive to determine if it is supported.

Information about removable storage supported on Windows Server can be found in the Windows Server Catalog located here.

Many of the USB hard disk drives on the market today are only designed, tested and supported on client operating systems specifically Windows and OS X.

It is common when reviewing server configurations to find unsupported external USB hard disk drives attached to PowerEdge servers running the Windows Server operating system.

The USB hard disk drives should be removed from the server and replaced with a supported USB hard disk drive as noted in the solution.

It is stardard practice that a request will be made to remove unsupported external USB hard disk drives particularly when troublshooting issues with a PowerEdge server.

The following provides information about common external USB hard disk drives that should not be connected to PowerEdge servers as they are currently only supported on the Windows and OS X client operating system.

Western Digital External Hard Disk Drives Western Digital My Book information can be found here by clicking on specifications.

Western Digital Elements information can be found here by clicking on specifications.

Western Digital Elements Portable information can be found here click specifications Western Digital My Passport Ultra information can be found here by clicking on specifications.

Western Digital My Passport information can be found here by clicking on specifications.

Western Digital My Cloud information can be found here by clicking on specifications.

Seagate External Hard Disk Drives Seagate Backup Plus Slim information can be found here.

Buffalo External Hard Disk Drives Buffalo DriveStation except DriveStation Duo which is supported on Windows Server 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2 can be found here by clicking on specifications.

Toshiba External Hard Disk Drives Toshiba Canvio Portable and Desktop Drive information can be found here.

Samsung External SSD Hard Disk Drive Samsung Portable SSD T3 information can be found here.

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