4tb drive support

RAIDMaker wrote:

Hello all. I just wanted to add that at least for the ReadyNAS 1100, disks greater than 2TB are supported when attached as USB drives. However, I was unable to format a 3TB with FAT32 using the onboard utility so I formatted it FAT32 and then attached the drive ( a WD My Book 3TB). Also, because of a FAT32 partition size limitation in Windows I had to use a 3rd party utility to format it FAT32 with a 3TB partition.

What? No. Just no. I don't know what you did, or how you did it, or even why. And i'd prefer if it stays that way. You want to use a 2TB+ drive with a ReadyNAS, Make it a EXT3 partition. Cant access it in Windows if you would like to hook it straight up to a system? Use this. Using FAT32 on a large drive makes you get incredible amounts of waste space, you could just as well have bought a smaller drive... Not to mention you still have to abide the 4GB limit for individual files.

RAIDMaker wrote:
This was done under firmware 4.1.7 and the new firmware 4.1.8 specifically says drives greater than 2TB are not supported. I've upgraded the firmware and can still see the 3TB external USB drive and I'll see if it works again when we attach another 3TB external USB drive later.

It's FAT32, it's just going to read it. With 64K clusters i think you get to about 8TB space within FAT32 without "issues" it's just not useful. So much wasted storage space...You can pretty much say that every file will waste half a cluster. thats 64KB for every 2 files. 1MB of waste for every 32 images, or whatever it is your storing. Just don't. Go with NTFS / EXT3. Fair warning. NTFS performance on the ReadyNAS lineup, sucks. I mean, like REALLY suck.
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