3tb esternal USB hard drives under 4.2.17

davidarky wrote:

I am having the same issue. I recently purchased a Newer Tech Voyager Q dock that could specifically read the 3TB Hitachi drives. I thought that my issue was that the older Newer Tech dock could not "see" the 3TB drive... But no when attempting to format the drive using the ext3 option, the formatted size never exceeds 750 gb... I have attempted this two or three times, with the 4.2.17 update installed. Any help would be appreciated. I don't have a PC around to format the drive as previously suggested David +++++++++++++++++ ReadyNas Ultra6, NV+

I am not having any trouble getting the 3tb drive seen as a ~2tb drive using various controllers. I am not seeing the whole drive. I have definitely seen that a PC with the drive hooked up as USB sees the drive the same way as the ReadyNAS. So I don't have to keep trying with the ReadyNAS until I see the PC has an ability to see the drive correctly.

What I have not tried is hooking the drive directly to a SATA controller and then formatting the drive. That is interesting but I would think it might just make the drive unreadable via the USB connection.

I am sure this will get worked around, worse comes to worse I put the 3Tbyte drives into the Readynas and use the existing 2TB drives as the backup media.

David