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Compatibility Question
I was looking at the USB compatibility post and it has not been updated in a while. I am looking for a Portable USB drive to backup my ReadyNAS NV+ and then store offsite. Current I have 4 1TB drives in xraid, for a total of 2.7TB of data. While I plan to eventually expand that, I figure I need a 3TB drive for my backup.
There is a Seagate 2TB Expansion Drive on the list. I am curious to know if the 3TB version is also compatible. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822178117
Regardless, Does anyone know of 3TB drives other than Seagate that are Compatible or you are successfully using?
There is a Seagate 2TB Expansion Drive on the list. I am curious to know if the 3TB version is also compatible. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822178117
Regardless, Does anyone know of 3TB drives other than Seagate that are Compatible or you are successfully using?
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- If you have an NV+ V1 (likely given your forum join date), then you can only connect 2 TB drives directly to the NAS.
You can back it up over the network to a USB drive attached to your PC. If your network is gigabit, then that would be faster, though of course you need both devices running. - Yes, I have a NV+ v1. So, I jumped too quickly. I purchased a 3TB drive. I had initial problems in that it can formatted NTFS and while the NAS saw it, it could not write backup jobs. I connected to my Mac and noticed the NTFS. I let the ReadyNAS format it EXT3. You comment explains why it showed a total size on 1.89 TB rather than 3 TB. Odd this is it still wont back up. The log files for the back up read like this (see below) for about 30 lines
Any thoughts? BTW, I am reposting most of this as a new topic in the back up area.
FULL Backup started. Fri Jan 25 21:21:32 CST 2013
Job: 001
Protocol: local
Source: [Group]/
Destination: [USB_HDD_2]/
`./Thumbs.db' -> `/USB_HDD_2/Thumbs.db'
cp: cannot create regular file `/USB_HDD_2/Thumbs.db': Read-only file system
`./SafariSetup.exe' -> `/USB_HDD_2/SafariSetup.exe'
cp: cannot create regular file `/USB_HDD_2/SafariSetup.exe': Read-only file system
cp: cannot create directory `/USB_HDD_2/Priority': Read-only file system
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