Why my external USB drive does not recognize by the Roku Streaming Stick?

Why my external USB drive does not recognize by the Roku Streaming Stick?

Most of the Roku streaming device consists of USB port. Here you can attach your external USB port for playing photos, audio, videos that are locally stored. Moreover, you need a Roku TV to use the external USB if you have then you can also use your external USB drive to delay live Television. roku.com/link will provide you with all the appropriate information of external USB port.

Problems with your USB drive are:

• Filesystem format of your USB does not support:

USB drives may have different forms of file systems. Roku devices supported the USB drives such as HFS, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, EXT2, EXT3.

Numerous new USB drives come up with the exFAT file systems. But they are not supported by the Roku com link devices.    

NOTE: Moreover, if you are using the USB drive only to suspend your real television on your Roku TV, then there is no requirement to know about the file format. Furthermore, you will be induced to setup the drive.

• USB drive may not have ample power:

USB drives are accessible in different types of size. From large to small. As the size of drives varies from large to small, their power specifications are also different. For example, some USB drives require an external power adapter, connected to a power outlet.

Most of the time Roku is failed to detect the USB drives. The reason behind that is Roku may not gives the sufficient power to the USB drives according to their ability.

USB drives have LEDs to indicate the users. It flashes red to indicate insufficient power.

Things you can do at that time are:

• Connect your USB drive to the power socket.
• If there is no external power adapter, then you can use a powered hub.

Besides this, if you any query regarding this article, you can visit our official blog of roku.com/link, To get more light on the use of external USB.