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Slavsta
Aug 29, 2009Aspirant
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....
ewok
Jan 15, 2010NETGEAR Expert
Thanks for the logs. The ReadyNAS uses an older partitioner that can't handle partitions larger than 2 TB. I'd suggest partitioning and formatting the disk on a PC before using it with the NAS.
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