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New USB external disk WD 8 TB does not connect
Hello, I have a 5 year old RND314 thajt works well and I have just bought a new WD My Book 8 TD external disk for backkup. Previousl I have WD 4 TB. The new externa disk I have tested with my Ma...
The problem is that the NAS doesn't support exfat. https://kb.netgear.com/7009/ReadyNAS-OS-6-USB-Port-use
NTFS is the best option if you use a PC. Though I think with a Mac, you'd either need access to a Windows system, or get a third-party package that will let you do the formatting on a Mac.
janpeter1 wrote:When the external USB disk is connected it actually blocks the start-up. Never comes "booting" in the small window of the NAS. What can be wrong?
These disks comes with various additional software on a dedicated bootable partition - which is bootable on industry standard x86 based systems what the RN are under the hood. To my knowledge, the ReadyNAS should boot from the external USB only using a defined process for recovery - and even a non-recognized file system should not cause this. StephenB any insight on this?
I have difficulty to buy the idea that ReadyNAS should try to boot from the external USB - but something like that may actually happen.
As I wrote in the later part I did format the disk from the Mac with ExFAT and thought that would help, but did not.
Try to look up some PC and do NTFS there and see if that helps.
Thanks
Just formatting the obvious "big" storage partition alone might not help. This would require removing any partitions most likley hidden, then add one single partition and format again. The Windows 10 disk/partition manager does allow this.
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