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2100: 4TB and larger USB-Disks for Backup?
Hi! Is it possible to use 4TB and perhaps even larger USB HDDs for backing up a 2100v1 via the NAS-USB-Ports? Thanks in advance for your answers! :)
it should be possible
When I tried it, my 5 TB drive got formatted as about 300 GBs (without telling me)
Googling seems to show that supporting more than 2 TB isn't possible with fdisk (which my Netgear used),
but that one has to use GNU's "parted" (not on my Netgear).
I'm still investigating :(
Stan
Try formatting the disks on a PC
What firmware are you running on the ReadyNAS?
I'm on an 1100, OP was on a 2100.
I'm running RAIDiator 4.1.14 [1.00a147]
which I don't think knows about exFAT.
So, formatting on a PC won't work (unless I use third party software to enable ext3), because FAT32 limit is 2 TB or so :(
I do plan to format it on a Linux box, but haven't had a chance today.
thanks,
Stan
sieler wrote:
I'm on an 1100, OP was on a 2100.
I'm running RAIDiator 4.1.14 [1.00a147]
which I don't think knows about exFAT.
So, formatting on a PC won't work (unless I use third party software to enable ext3), because FAT32 limit is 2 TB or so :(
I do plan to format it on a Linux box, but haven't had a chance today.
thanks,
Stan
The 1100 (like all 4.1.x systems) is limited to 2 TB drives. The issue isn't related to ext3, exfat - it is more basic. 4.1.x systems can't handle GPT formatting, they only support MBR. And that is limited to 2 TB. There is no workaround.
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