Should I attach this Seagate Expansion drive to a router?

[LukeH]

First of, I don't know if this is the best sub forum for this but I couldn't figure better.

I have an ASUS RT-AC56U and a 2T Seagate Expansion http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/consumer/backup/expansion-hard-drive/ which I want to connect to it's USB.
This may be a silly question but is OK for such a drive to function 24/7 (cough...most likely upload much of this time...cough)?
I'm asking this since is a drive that requires external power so from this point of view I'm thinking it may have extra parts that may fail in such scenario then the disk itself.
Thanks,
Luke

 

[System Error Message]

its totally fine. Its just the performance might be the disappointing bit rather.

 

[sfx2000]

Should be ok - do be advised that very large disk volumes can run into issues with some Router/AP's due to small memory available.