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Connect 10TB USB drive to ReadyNAS 3138
Hi, I have an external USB drive w/ 10TB as of now formatted with ExFat. It does not show up in the frontend (System page) of my ReadyNAS 3138. dmesg shows this: [ 3959.665535] usb 1-1.1: new h...
The ReadyNAS does not natively support EXFAT, but I understand you can install exfat-fuse and exfat-utils via SSH. Since my backup is to other NAS, I've not tried it myself.
loco42 wrote:In the backup howto it is stated that the preferred format is ext4.
Personally I disagree with that advice for backup. If your PCs can't read the backup, then it isn't worth much. So I recommend choosing a format you can read on your other PCs. NTFS can be read and written by Windows, and read by Mac.
loco42 wrote:
How shall I format it, can I use a command line directly on the NAS?
If you have a Windows PC, I would format it there. I'd start by going into the windows disk manager, and delete any partitions that are on the drive. Then create a new one, and initialize it. Format using NTFS (as noted above).
The ReadyNAS does not natively support EXFAT, but I understand you can install exfat-fuse and exfat-utils via SSH. Since my backup is to other NAS, I've not tried it myself.
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