I am trying to connect a 3tb external hard drive to the router but whenever i connect it the router page shows ~750 million KB or around 746 GB. I have tried formatting it multiple times and i even formatted it in Ubuntu using GParted but each time i connect the hard drive to the router it says unformatted, so i format it but still shows 746GB. I am using XFS, but if anyone knows how to make NTFS work on friendly i would love to do that.
Oh and I should mention that whenever i format from the router page and refresh it keeps saying not formatted, so basicly the size is wrong and even if i could live with that it wont work anyway because it keeps saying unformatted.
P.S. I am using the User Friendly Firmware (DLNA server and remote NAS)
As far as im aware this router can only support a max of 2TB USB HDD's.
My setup
2 laptops running Windows7 & an Xtreamer with 500GB internal hard disk. I bought a new 3TB but could not make it work with the Xtreamer. And that is important for me because the Xtreamer acts as a Network hub ( i can access content on the Xtreamer from my laptop & also play the content on the TV directly).
Found a good solution to manage the 3TB external hard drive
1. Create backup of data ( if any )
2. Ensure that the formatting is done to MBR mode
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/26203-convert-gpt-disk-mbr-disk.html
2. Use EaseUS software and create 2 partitions of 1.9TB & 1 TB in FAT32 mode
It works just fine and am happy....