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knelson454
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Sep 14, 2016
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RN104 doesnt see WD Elements 3TB USB HDD on any USB ports

Hi, I have had up until yesterday two 64 GB USB sticks in the two rear ports of my RN104 for backup of files. I was using them both for back up of different stuff, but its just not enough room. So I h...
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    knelson454
    Sep 16, 2016

    Good Morning. Thanks for the reply BrianL. Update 2 incase anyone reads this.

    Before you get to involved in research because I screwed up... I found some stuff out. I kept farting around with the WD Elements case and the 3TB drive. I guess I should mention first off (because I didn’t think it was an issue before) that the 3TB drive is a replacement drive for which was originally a 2TB drive in the Elements case.

    I hooked this WD Elements drive back up to the PC and it still showed 3TB. For some reason I decided to instead of just formatting again I deleted the whole partition. When I went to make the new partition it only showed 2TB available on the 3TB drive. So I went ahead and made the partition 2TB. I then took it back to the NAS104 and plugged it in and it saw it just fine! So... the USB interface board inside the Elements case must somehow have a limitation built into it. Because the 3TB was formatted before I put it in the case is why it worked in the first place with the PC whiich saw it just fine, so I thought the NAS would too. It’s been a fun learning experience.

    Anyway, I went this morning and bought a Vantec Nexstar G6 or 6G enclosure, I can't tell from the logo. It’s a USB 3.0 and SATA III so it’s fast and only $23 at Frys. I did a speed test on it with a PC and it transfers data from the 3TB to PC at 140MB/sec. Good enough for me. I'll try it tonight when I get home to plug in to the NAS104. I hope it sees it. KN.

     

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