ReadyNas RN2304 Using Large capacity SSD (16TB) connected to USB

Question

I have four RN2304s with max capacity on one of 28TB. I have been trying to set up backups using attached USB drives. So far I have used mechanical USB drives to capacity of 5TB without any problem. I purchased some 16TB SSD usb drives and the NAS would not mount them. I tried various formats (NTFS, exFat, etc) without success. I then started reducing the size of the drive and reached 1.25TB (MBR:NTFS) and it sees the drive. Has anyone had success with larger SSDs? Any suggestions?

Thanks

StephenB · Answer

Obiwan_&nbsp;wrote:
I purchased some 16TB SSD usb drives&nbsp;
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What did you buy?
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The largest Crucial and Samsung external SSDs are 4 TB. I am thinking you might have gotten a scam drive (not having the capacity it claims).

Obiwan_ · Answer

I pulled it apart and it is a scam. inside 64 gb micro&nbsp; ssd Son of a B- - - - H !!!!One of the venders is wrapango.com

Sandshark · Answer

It would certainly be possible to cram a few M.2 SSDs into one external case, together with the necessary circuitry to concatenate them, but it would be quite expensive.&nbsp; Sorry you had to find out the hard way that one is too good to be true and I hope you can get your money back.

Sandshark · Answer

The ReadyNAS OS does not support ExFAT, so don't keep trying that.&nbsp; It should support GPT/NTFS without regard to it being an SSD or mechanical hard drive.&nbsp; But it does not support a drive having a GPT protective partition.&nbsp; When it does show up, what happens if you try to reformat with the NAS?

Obiwan_ · Answer

The drives are available in various sizes 8, 16, 16 GB. See jpeg attached.

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