No, it goes straight into the router. It works fine as an external disc-drive, but all the bells and whistles are hidden in random rooms in some psychedelic castle. I have no idea what it's doing half the time and it reports its Secure Zone (with pie chart) as having 0 space (because it has never been configured.)
Now, this is after spending 1.25 hours copying the data needed for some kind of restore function. It's still being shown in Devices in the newly created Other Devices. So near, yet so far. I can not make it find the replacement drivers which I downloaded specifically for W7 32bit.
The download simply unzipped 1 .inf 1 .dll and 1 .pdb No .exe to make anything work. Windows says it can't see these (or whatever it wants) no matter where I put them. ie in Downloads or the Root of C drive.
Domestic tasks demand my time for a while, but I don't like to lose a battle like this. I'll see just when Staples require it to be returned and bash on till the last moment.
It certainly seems to have 12,000 photos on it. That alone is probably worth the $59, but the main idea was to be able to let people around the world edit some chapters for me, while in secure folders.