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5tb usb drive... How??
I have readynas duo trying to add a 4.5tb drive to 2nd rear USB port. Drive is formatted MBR with NTFS. Drive is recognised but Frontview shows it has no FileSystem and therefore doesn't show up as a share.
After reading the many conflicting discussions in the forums I tried to reformat drive under Windows 7 as RBT - after 2 days ended up with a 2gb drive!
So reformatted back to MBR which took a further 4 days.
Then tried to format EXT3 through frontview - again ended up with a 2gb drive.
This is a western digital 5tb USB Hard drive. Can any one advise me what I need to do to get it working. I need to be able to access the drive from TV and WDPlay devices as a windows share (as I currently do with the other 1tb USB drive already attached to the NAS which is formatted FAT)
After reading the many conflicting discussions in the forums I tried to reformat drive under Windows 7 as RBT - after 2 days ended up with a 2gb drive!
So reformatted back to MBR which took a further 4 days.
Then tried to format EXT3 through frontview - again ended up with a 2gb drive.
This is a western digital 5tb USB Hard drive. Can any one advise me what I need to do to get it working. I need to be able to access the drive from TV and WDPlay devices as a windows share (as I currently do with the other 1tb USB drive already attached to the NAS which is formatted FAT)
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- Your Duo (v1) only support disks up to 2TB in capacity. This applies to both internal and external disks.
- Normally formatting of a > 2 TB drive is GPT. MBR is limited to 2 TB. I don't understand your reference to RBT (AFAIK it doesn't exist). The NAS only recognizes the older MBR, which is one reason why it can't handle the larger drive sizes.
Overall, it sounds to me like you have outgrown the duo. Generally attaching USB drives to expand the storage capacity doesn't work that well - performance is poor,and usually the drives are spun up all the time.
Perhaps consider upgrading to an RN102 or and RN104. They will accept your 5 TB drives, and as your budget permits you can add enough internal storage to hold your media library.
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