topic Re: Arlo Pro Local USB storage formatting in Arlo Pro

Arlo Pro Local USB storage formatting

boci — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 16:25:42 GMT

Hello,

Did anyone experience issues with formatting, where large capacity drives get formatted down to 750GB?

I plugged in 3TB drive and Arlo base station formatted it to 750GB. I tried this with three different 3TB and 2TB hard drives with the same results.

Interestingly even after formatting them on PC, the capacity was still 750GB and I could not get back full storage of 3TB or 2TB.

Re: Arlo Pro Local USB storage formatting

TomMac — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:42:00 GMT

The PRO supports a max of 2 TB as it is formatted in Fat32 ( and that is the theoretical max for that format )

Re: Arlo Pro Local USB storage formatting

commiepinkofag — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 02:17:06 GMT

That's unfortunate to the point of irresponsible. It's 2017, not 1996. It's not unreasonable to assume that modern devices modern storage formats. NetGear should be ashamed of themselves.

Re: Arlo Pro Local USB storage formatting

jguerdat — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:54:28 GMT

Pretty much any device that uses SD cards for storage uses FAT32. Pro DSLR cameras do so as do many others. Just offhand, I don't know of a single device that uses any other format although I'm sure there are some.

Re: Arlo Pro Local USB storage formatting

commiepinkofag — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 20:04:17 GMT

No offence, ubiquity doesn't imply the absence of mediocrity. 1.6 tb? It's 2017 and we're talking about video files. I haven't had to administer a single device with FAT32 in fifteen years. I perceive this and other aspects of the system as a deliberate incapacty intended to sell cloud storage.

Re: Arlo Pro Local USB storage formatting

jguerdat — Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:45:29 GMT

It's also a lowest common denominator thing. Not everyone is sophisticated. Why not ext3/4/whatever?

Re: Arlo Pro Local USB storage formatting

ranran — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 16:17:24 GMT

Also looking for local storage.

So, theoretically, since there are 2 usb ports, can we plug two 2TB external drives in for a max of 4TB of storage?

Re: Arlo Pro Local USB storage formatting

jguerdat — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 21:06:19 GMT

Yes. When USB1 fills it will automatically fall over to USB2.

Re: Arlo Pro Local USB storage formatting

ranran — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 21:44:45 GMT

Thank you!