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[carlosSP]

hey there, I'm fairly new here, I have recently acquired a DNS-320 4TB baby.  There is a this point a  2 TB Samsung Spinpoint F4EG  in it. But when i try to add my Seagate FreeAgent Go-Flex Desk 3 TB UDB3.0 it doesn't come up in windows. I can see it in the Share center  under "USB Information" but it doesn't  show the size of the disk. If I plug a 1TB USB2.0 Iomega then it shows perfectly.

Current NAS Firmware Version   
2.00
Description   
DNS-320
System Temperature   
113°F/45°C
Current Rx/Tx   
41893/17271
Oh one more think. I'm running a DIR-655 router

[cable2]

Hi,
I am pretty sure that the 320 does not support any 3TB USB drives.  I don't think the USB 3.0 is the problem as this is supposed to be backwards compatible.  You might try any USB 2 drive or stick just to double check that the USB port is not a problem.  Good luck.

[carlosSP]

no i have tried a  1TB iomega USB 2.0 and it worked fine. I have the same problem with my Boxxebox; and at the boxee forum I'd been told that boxee doesn't support more than 2.0 TB so I'd have to partition the drive. And i hoped that i would not need to do that  with the DNS -320
 a quote from the boxee forum:

Apparently it was not the total partition size that was the problem, but only the size of the sectors used for storage allocation. The traditional sector size is 512 bytes, and apparently that is the only size our current Boxee firmwares can handle. And that is why they can't handle some of the new large drives which have a larger sector size (8 times larger in the example above, with 4096 byte sectors).

So these guys either shopped around for a drive which does use 512 byte sectors, or found a way to reconfigure a drive to use such sectors instead of the 4096 byte sectors it was preconfigured to use.