DSL modem a Mac formatted hard drive can plug into

[revenantananias]

We recently moved and are on dsl (Kinect by windstream). Their modem does not recognise my 8tb Mac formatted hard-drive. Is their a DSL modem that will make my hard-drive useful again without buying a router? I live in a smallish flat so I do not want to buy a router nor a mesh, but will buy a router is I have to.
I have an airport base station but the USB is not 3, and sometimes it struggles taking 15 minutes to move 3 gigs.
Anyone know of anything?

 

[Fishrrman]

The problem with buying a 3rd party DSL modem is that it may not work properly with your ISP's signal.

You're probably going to need a 3rd party router for this purpose.
I could be wrong.

 

[sgtaylor5]

... and if you buy a 3rd party router, you're going to have to put into bridge mode, so the 3rd party router's DHCP server and NAT are turned off.

FYI, CenturyLink turns off the USB port in its routers' firmware. Make sure Kinect didn't do the same.

 

[chrfr]

We recently moved and are on dsl (Kinect by windstream). Their modem does not recognise my 8tb Mac formatted hard-drive. Is their a DSL modem that will make my hard-drive useful again without buying a router? I live in a smallish flat so I do not want to buy a router nor a mesh, but will buy a router is I have to.
I have an airport base station but the USB is not 3, and sometimes it struggles taking 15 minutes to move 3 gigs.
Anyone know of anything?

You're not going to find a device like this that will read a Mac formatted disk– it's just not an option in them.

 

[hwojtek]

You're probably going to need a 3rd party router for this purpose.

A SOHO router that recognizes an Apple formatted (APFS? HFS?) disk is downright impossible to find.

... and if you buy a 3rd party router, you're going to have to put into bridge mode, so the 3rd party router's DHCP server and NAT are turned off.

The OP would be much better off with turning bridge mode on the modem and not on the router.
The solution I can see would be using a Raspberry PI attached with an ethernet cable to the modem (if the modem has router functionality, as in "a number of ethernet ports") or to the router (again, bridge mode on the modem is highly recommended), running Raspbian or Ubuntu with Samba and sharing the disk. Sounds harder than it actually is, with a lot of guides available. Just make sure your "NAS" OS on the Raspberry is configured to read MacOS format. APFS is currently a no-go, I believe.

 

[DeltaMac]

Yes, the problem is the format used for the USB drive attached to your modem. The modem is probably limited to NTFS format (fat32 would be useless with 8TB), and your Mac can read NTFS, but cannot modify or save anything to that NTFS drive. Using the modem to connect directly to the 8TB drive is probably not a good choice, if you want to share the drive.
hwojtek post above has good tips about alternatives.

 

[revenantananias]

Thanks. I always know I will get good, useful info here.

 

[Basic75]

Yes, the problem is the format used for the USB drive attached to your modem. The modem is probably limited to NTFS format (fat32 would be useless with 8TB), and your Mac can read NTFS, but cannot modify or save anything to that NTFS drive. Using the modem to connect directly to the 8TB drive is probably not a good choice, if you want to share the drive.
hwojtek post above has good tips about alternatives.

Probably exFAT would work best, I can't imagine a modem doing NTFS well.