Frontview formats a FOUR tb external drive as a TWO tb ext3!

Will send logs soon.

However, I started all over just to confirm my 4TB drive wasn't plugged into the NAS as a 2TB RAID1 mirror:

Reconfigured the drive explicitly as RAID0 HFS+ 4TB using Western Digital Drive Manager utility
Formatted it on my MAC using Disk Utility as a 4TB drive
Just in case, Get Info confirmed the drive as 4TB partition

Connected it to ReadyNAS and it RECOGNIZED it as a 4TB USB drive in the USB Volumes/USB Storage

Formatted it as ext3.

Got 2TB ext3 drive.

Went back to my Mac and reformatted it as 4TB.

I am 100% sure it was 4TB capacity because in the end I used a 3rd-party backup utility [Data Backup - worked just fine] to backup all of my 2.7TB shares from ReadyNAS to it, while it was connected to MacBookPro.

So my theory is that since ReadyNAS uses ext3 as internal format for its disks and you explicitly state it doesn't support disks beyond 1.5TB it just balked at a 4TB "THING" connected to it, and formatted it to the best of its "knowledge" of reality - 2TB :)

BTW, ewok, you know how they make you input scrambled-looking letters when signing up for online service to make sure you're human and not a bot? Well, if you decide to continue to amaze us mortals with ultrafast response times, pls enter the following in your response: "jEdi5 aRe HumAn aNd not R0b()ts" :)

Seriously, Netgear has amazing online support quality and response time. A bothersome noob like myself knows what he's talking about... So thank you very much indeed. Spasibo!