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Frontview formats a FOUR tb external drive as a TWO tb ext3!
So I thought I'd found a reasonably priced high-capacity external hard drive for backing up my ReadyNAS: Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II - 4 TB (Mac-formatted out of the box) http://www....
Slavsta wrote:
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 :)
The ReadyNAS can handle a disk larger than 1.5TB, it's just a problem when you string a few of them together and make a RAID array larger than it can handle. 4TB shouldn't be a problem though. Go ahead and connect it to the NAS and format it so it shows 2TB and send me the logs when you get the chance.
Slavsta wrote:
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" :)
jEdi5 aRe HumAn aNd not R0b()ts... though I may just be a really good captcha-breaking robot. :wink:
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