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External USB drive to back up 6TB ReadyNAS NV+ V1
I have a Raid-X setup in a Readynas NV+ V1 with 4 2TB drives holding approx 6TB of data. I want to back it up to an external USB drive. I got a Seagate USB3.0 8TB drive, but so far I can't ge...
Yes I am using a network share. It is interesting that it can crate a 8TB raid, but cannot access a single drive larger than 2TB...almost makes the ability to hook up an external drive for backup purposes useless.
youbecha wrote:
It is interesting that it can crate a 8TB raid, but cannot access a single drive larger than 2TB...almost makes the ability to hook up an external drive for backup purposes useless.
Agreed. It's not an issue for me anymore, since my NV+ backs up my pro (and doesn't need to be backed up itself).
The core product goes back to ~2007-2008 and pre-dates GPT drives. I think the largest available drives at the time were 1 TB, maybe even less. There's been some debate here on whether the v1 hardware is capable of supporting GPT or not, but at the end of the day, Netgear didn't add it.
Of course none of the current ReadyNAS have this limitation.
Hi youbecha,
I believe it only supports up to 2TB capacity for an external USB hard drive and you're lucky if a 3TB works fine. I totally agree with what StephenB have said.
Kind regards,
BrianL
NETGEAR Community Team
Thanks all for the input!
And just to clarify, no the NV+ V1 did not recognize the drive in EXT3 or EXT4...well I should say, it sees 2TB, but lists the drive as no file system.
Yup doing the slow backup over the network...
...I am curious how an external USB raid would look...I may have to try that next.
youbecha wrote:
Thanks all for the input!
And just to clarify, no the NV+ V1 did not recognize the drive in EXT3 or EXT4...well I should say, it sees 2TB, but lists the drive as no file system.
Yup doing the slow backup over the network...
...I am curious how an external USB raid would look...I may have to try that next.
It would look like a GPT formatted system, so that wouldn't work either.
Copying over a gigabit network is the fastest way to copy data from a v1 NAS.
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