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Aspirant

Jun 27, 2017

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Problem with Seagate Backup Plus 4TB and ReadyNAS NV+

I've got an old ReadyNAS NV+ with about 3TB of storage on it.

I recently purchased a Seagate Backup Plus 4TB drive to back it up. This is the first time I've connected a USB drive to the NAS with the intention of backing it up.

I plugged it in and connected the drive to one of the back USB ports. In FrontView, it showed up rather quickly, but as a 2GB drive. I thought that was odd, and thought it might clear up if I reformatted it to EXT3. After the format, which took a while, it still shows the size as 2031 GB with 128 MB used.

Did I get the wrong size drive sent to me? The box says it's supposed to be 4TB.

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StephenB
Jul 03, 2017
Try right-clicking on the share and selecting the sharing tab. Then click "advanced sharing".and then "permissions"

If the account you are using to access the share isn't listed, then click on "add" to add it.

Then select that account , and make sure it has all options (full control, change, and read) set to allow.

After that go to the security tab, select that same account, and set all options there (except special permissions) to allow.

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Amidala
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jun 28, 2017
Excuse me, which version do you use?
- wootcat
  Aspirant
  Jun 28, 2017
  I'm not sure what you mean by which version...
  
  Model: ReadyNAS NV+ [X-RAID]
  Firmware: RAIDiator 4.1.8 [1.00a043]
  Memory: 256 MB [2.5-3-3-7]
Amidala
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Jun 28, 2017
it is recommended that you use FAT32 or NTFS file system. You can try it.
StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Jun 28, 2017
wootcat wrote:

I've got an old ReadyNAS NV+

The v1 (OS 4.1.x) NAS are limited to 2 TB drives- both USB and internal. They don't support GPT formatting. If you try to use larger sizes you end up with odd results.

So you'll need to connect the drive to a PC, reformat, and copy over the network. That'll actually be a lot faster.

As far as formatting goes, I don't recommend FAT32 - the max file size (4 GB) often gets in the way.
- wootcat
  Aspirant
  Jun 28, 2017
  So move it to the PC and reformat it? If not FAT32, then what? Windows 7 doesn't format EXT3 as far as I know.
  - StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    Jun 29, 2017
    wootcat wrote:
    
    So move it to the PC and reformat it? If not FAT32, then what? Windows 7 doesn't format EXT3 as far as I know.
    
    Format it as NTFS, and use it in the PC. You can't connect it directly to the NAS, as it can't handle disks > 2 TB.