Largest HDD supported.

[Nice Monkey]

FIXED IT

I have reformatted and still could not see it.

Then I have formatted it to 8k allocation unit size and I could see it again on Q5.

I don't know if that will be a overhead on reading/writing to it and porbably I will lose some bytes, but at leas I can use it.

Strange that it only works with 8K clusters. Never seen any device with this. Will keep an eye on it for 4Kn drives.
Overhead with pure media files is extremely low. Only if you have lots of very small files it is noticeable.

Got my Q10 pro but don't have a 4Kn drive myself.

[ferlons]

Hi all
it seems I can't make my Q10 4k/3d read my HDD...
I've a 4tb WD (green label), if I connect it via USB / docking station the device can read it without any problems but when i try to insert it into Q10 it seems it can't see my HDD.
HDD is working (i can hear and feel with my hand that he's working and so it's receiving power) but it seems Q10 can't read it.
I've tried formatting it NFTS with no partition and 2 partitions, but it didn't work.

any advice?
thanks for help

[futeko.com]

WD Green 4TB definitely works.

Is the SATA connector fully pushed into the SATA port on the drive?

Best way to format is GPT and NTFS, one partition should be fine.

[Nice Monkey]

Hi all
it seems I can't make my Q10 4k/3d read my HDD...
I've a 4tb WD (green label), if I connect it via USB / docking station the device can read it without any problems but when i try to insert it into Q10 it seems it can't see my HDD.
HDD is working (i can hear and feel with my hand that he's working and so it's receiving power) but it seems Q10 can't read it.
I've tried formatting it NFTS with no partition and 2 partitions, but it didn't work.

any advice?
thanks for help

You read the tutorial under general? If it is attached via an USB Enclosure then it for sure does not work when moved to Internal. Real Plug & Play Dockings are questionable as they may do various things depending on the actual model (most won't be supporting GPT).
Using 2 partitions never helps in any way.

You need to remove the HDD from the enclosure and attach it via (E) SATA to a windows PC and next format it with GPT and NTFS.
Success guaranteed, have a few of those myself. Don't format it using the enclosure via USB on a Windows PC as it will once more get the wrong format (MBR with 4K Logical Sectors and NTFS) for Internal deployment.