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Time Machine 2tb limit?
Hi! I tested the ReadyNAS Pro equipped with 6tb. We (ad agency) are planning to use it with TimeMachine to backup our desktop macs. I wanted to use the maximum capacity, which is 4607GB, for TM, b...
Uh....
That seems like a fairly critical piece of information to share *somewhere* in the docs/howtos/demos. None of the docs I read in all the research I did before making this purchasing decision made ANY mention of this limitation.
Anybody want to take a crack at convincing me to continue to be a customer of Netgear? I've got an office full of mac laptops and this setup I purchased for several thousand dollars is no more useful to me then two time capsules which would have cost a couple hundred dollars.
There's gotta be a work around here. Multiple 2T files/shares? A file for each user/laptop? Use 8K blocks for the ext3 filesystem (instead of the default 4K) for the share so it'll support files > 2T? Use something other than ext3 for the FS?
That seems like a fairly critical piece of information to share *somewhere* in the docs/howtos/demos. None of the docs I read in all the research I did before making this purchasing decision made ANY mention of this limitation.
Anybody want to take a crack at convincing me to continue to be a customer of Netgear? I've got an office full of mac laptops and this setup I purchased for several thousand dollars is no more useful to me then two time capsules which would have cost a couple hundred dollars.
There's gotta be a work around here. Multiple 2T files/shares? A file for each user/laptop? Use 8K blocks for the ext3 filesystem (instead of the default 4K) for the share so it'll support files > 2T? Use something other than ext3 for the FS?
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