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NAS 516 | USB HDD 5 TB as backup space | how to format and access?
Have bought a WD 5 TB USB HDD for backup purposes for my 516. I have in place: NAS 516 with OS 6.6.1 WRT 5 TB HDDs I am aware of: Booting: MBR does not work, GPT is mandatory Format: NFTS does...
Formatted the usb_hdd with windows partition manager (GPT+NFTS). After connecting my 516 wasn't able to connect the usb_hdd.
Tried with Mini Tool Partition Wizard. The win partition manager had created a little system partition on the usb_hdd of roughly 100 MB which was deleted with the Mini Tool. Afterwards formatted with Mini Tool (GPT+NFTS) as 5 TB USB HDD. Connection with the 516 worked.
Tried to reformat to EXT4 which reduced the available space from 5 TB down to 2 TB.
Reformatting with the Mini Tool (GPT+NFTS) as 5 TB USB HDD which worked. backup runs since 30 minutes with a transfer rate of 125 mb/s which seems to be not much slower than EXT4.
Summary: Mini Tool created a 5 TB usb hdd with GPT+NFTS which works fine as external backup storage for the 516
Thank you all for your kind advise
StephenB wrote:
TT_DE wrote:Would you recommend to use the Win7 partition tool or should I better use an alternative tool such as Mini Tool Partition Wizard to format?
I suggest using the windows disk manager - right-clicking and deleting every "volume" it sees on the drive. Then I'd create a new "volume" and format it as NTFS (see below).
TT_DE wrote:
Would you recommend to format GPT & NFTS & single partition or GPT & EXT4 & single partition?
The most important thing is to have a backup format you can easily read if the NAS fails. NTFS works for me, since my PCs are all windows. NAS backups to NTFS used to be a lot slower than EXT4, but Netgear switched to a new NTFS package recently, so that isn't an issue any more.
OK, will do NFTS.
I can read and access both - NFTS via WIN7 PC and EXT4 via Linux Reader on my Win PC
Formatted the usb_hdd with windows partition manager (GPT+NFTS). After connecting my 516 wasn't able to connect the usb_hdd.
Tried with Mini Tool Partition Wizard. The win partition manager had created a little system partition on the usb_hdd of roughly 100 MB which was deleted with the Mini Tool. Afterwards formatted with Mini Tool (GPT+NFTS) as 5 TB USB HDD. Connection with the 516 worked.
Tried to reformat to EXT4 which reduced the available space from 5 TB down to 2 TB.
Reformatting with the Mini Tool (GPT+NFTS) as 5 TB USB HDD which worked. backup runs since 30 minutes with a transfer rate of 125 mb/s which seems to be not much slower than EXT4.
Summary: Mini Tool created a 5 TB usb hdd with GPT+NFTS which works fine as external backup storage for the 516
Thank you all for your kind advise
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