What is the maximum drive support/manual page?Does it support a 2tb HDD formatted in fat 32/ntfs?
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I don't know. I've been using 8G flash drives or an old WD Cavier 313000, 13G ide hard drive. I'm not sure if it's formatted in Fat/NFTS. Sorry!
311960
I have used a 4TB WD MyBook successfully. I made the mistake of connecting that 4TB drive to an old Windows computer which mangled it, then even after a reformat, the DVR crashes every time I connect the drive. Somehow only the original factory format could work.The DVR can use a large FAT32 drive but formatting a 2TB+ HD as FAT32 results in 1.6TB capacity.
311961
I wish I could help you but neither the book or the box gives you a maximum on storage. It just says you have to use an external USB drive. I am using an HP simple save that I think is 500 G and it works for me but I just record TV shows.
311962
the manual has this info for compatibility of HDD and USB devices for the timeshift and PVR functionsdevice timeshift PVR record formatUSB flash drive works works Fat323.5inch HDD works works NTFS2.5inch HDD works works NTFS/FAT321.8inchHDD doesn't work works NTFS/Fat32I hope this helps. I use a portable 1TB hard drive (USB 3.0 + 2.0) Toshiba brand, as my storage device. It works beautifully. If you are wondering the timeshift function allows you to pause a show while you are watching it, if you have to leave the TV for any reason, and resume play from that point when you return so you don't miss anything. the show is not stored however, for a future viewing. You have to use the PVR /record function to do that. the manual has this info for compatibility of HDD and USB devices for the timeshift and PVR functionsdevice timeshift PVR record formatUSB flash drive works works Fat323.5inch HDD works works NTFS2.5inch HDD works works NTFS/FAT321.8inchHDD doesn't work works NTFS/Fat32I hope this helps. I use a portable 1TB hard drive (USB 3.0 + 2.0) Toshiba brand, as my storage device. It works beautifully. If you are wondering the timeshift function allows you to pause a show while you are watching it, if you have to leave the TV for any reason, and resume play... » Read More the manual has this info for compatibility of HDD and USB devices for the timeshift and PVR functionsdevice timeshift PVR record formatUSB flash drive works works Fat323.5inch HDD works works NTFS2.5inch HDD works works NTFS/FAT321.8inchHDD doesn't work works NTFS/Fat32I hope this helps. I use a portable 1TB hard drive (USB 3.0 + 2.0) Toshiba brand, as my storage device. It works beautifully. If you are wondering the timeshift function allows you to pause a show while you are watching it, if you have to leave the TV for any reason, and resume play from that point when you return so you don't miss anything. the show is not stored however, for a future viewing. You have to use the PVR /record function to do that. « Show Less
311963
Website says 2tb. I have a 1tb external hard drive reads it with no problems.
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Unfortunately this unit can only read FAT16 or FAT32 filesystems, not NTFS... so your drive size is limited by the capabilities of FAT32: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32
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Don't own this particular disk, but the support for large files is unrelated with the disk itself. It is a limitation of the file system used on it, so if you format the drive as FAT, then it will have an upper limit on file sizes of 4gb. There are other file systems which support bigger files, such as NTFS (or HFS+ in case you're using a Mac). But do notice that FAT is still the most widely supported format, so some devices might have issue reading from a NTFS disk.
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Mine came formatted with the FAT32 file system so I changed it to NTFS and it did it just fine!
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Depends on how it's formatted. FAT, FAT32, exFAT or NTFS. While the earlier three support older systems they're not as robust and reliable as NTFS. If you're strictly Windows you can use NTFS. So, it sounds like you got a 64Gb drive--- but, remember, you loose space when it's formatted depending on the FS Type.
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the largest drive i'm using with this is 2TB, but I see no reason why 4TB shouldn't work, as long as you have 64 bit windows.
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I currently have a 3TB Western Digital SATA drive installed.So yes it will support over 2TB. I cannot confirm about 4TB support however.
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in the paper that comes with the drive it directs you to seesupport.wdc.com --> knowledge base article #287The 2TB version I just bought was pre-formatted for NTFS (which Disk Utility recognized just fine...I reformatted for Mac just for the better file system)
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I installed an internal 3tb drive with no problems, all 3 tb useable. Firmware Version 1.0.1.52 will support 4tb external, but I'm not sure about internal. I would think it would.
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I'm honestly not sure, as I immediately formatted the drive when I got it. Sorry!
533373
The physical sector size of the 2TB drive was (surprisingly) 4096 making it a 4k /Advanced Format Drive. I no longer have the drive to verify my memory on this but that is what my review was about. Formerly Seagate's 2TB external Backup Plus drives were 512 making them compatible with Windows 7 backup and imaging utilities-that's why I say "surprisingly". Since there is no indication of this change on the packaging (even though there is a logo for Advanced Format 4kn-native-and Advanced Format 512e -emulation drives) you would not know it until you bought the drive and tried to use the utilities. If you already bought the drive you can run the command line: Fsutil Fsinfo ntfsinfo x: (where x: is the drive's letter designation) to verify-too little too late, unfortunately! It would be hard to convince me this isn't Seagate's deliberate omission and I think Amazon should have this information listed as well.
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According to the box the max is 1TB drive. I have 500gb drives in the 2 I got the drives are a tight fit
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Yes and no, I have two of them (2TB and 4TB), the 2TB is 7200 but the 4TB is 5900. It appears all of them are 7200 except for the 4TB. The models of the actual (internal) drives are ST2000DM001 and ST4000DM000. In case you want to google some more.
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You can format the drive as FAT 32, Mac OS Extended, or NTFS. Your decision.
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I wouldn't be suprised if some external hard drives use the NTFS system instead of the FAT32. It's easy to reformat it though.
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Yes you can use it if the drive is formatted using FAT32. However doing so has a limitation because FAT32 FS cannot support individual files greater than 4GB. Also you will see a degraded performance regardless of which hard disk you buy.
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I'm having a problem with a 3TB drive... shows up as 2.2TB and 800GB. Refer to http://www.pcworld.com/article/235088/everything_you_need_to_know_about_3TB_hard_drives.html