EA 6400 compatible USB drives

I have a WD Essentials, 2 TB, USB drive. It works fine with my computer. However, it isn't recognized by the EA6400 router.
I looked at the list of tested devices and they have a WD My Book Essentials 3 TB on the list. There is either an Essentials, or a My Book, but not one that combines the two.
Also on the list are several internal hard drives. These are clearly not USB, so how did they make the list ?
When I looked at the drives on the list, they all indicated they are Windows drives. The point is to allow all devices to have access, but these say they must be reformatted to work with Macs, and then they wouldn't work with Windows.
NAS drives do both but they just connect with an ethernet connection. The advantages of router based storage would then be lost.
Obviously there is much I am not understanding about this. I tried a chat to see if I could get a reference to a doc that would explain what I need, but the tech really didn't answer the questions and just dropped out of the conversation.
I'd sure love some suggestions on this. Preferably, if someone can recommend a good drive, about 2TB or larger, that they have used with this router and multiple devices ( Windows, Mac, and iOS ) I would be grateful.
Tim

routerguy99 wrote:
The router can see other USB drives but others, I have a 750g seagate Freeagent, that is not reconized but my asus sees it just fine, I think they need to update the USB HDD portion of the router
Maybe the drive is not supported by the router. Check if your drive is in the List of Tested USB Hard drives and Printers for EA6400.

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Dear Joe,
Let me start off by apologizing for the inconvenience you
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