topic Re: Message notification "Local storage was not properly ejected from Arlo Base" keeps pop in Arlo Pro

Message notification "Local storage was not properly ejected from Arlo Base" keeps popping up

phetamine — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 02:50:23 GMT

I have this notification message popping up at least once a day for the past week. I never had it before having owned the Arlo Pro system for the past couple of years.

Currently my Base Station is a VMB4000r3 with firmware 1.15.0.1_3162_d878851.

I did not make any changes to the system and the local storage is a usb-powered 120gb external hard drive. I haven't had any issues with it aside from these annoying messages. I recently (re)formatted the drive within the Arlo app to see if that will help. Once the format completed the notification popped up immediately.

Any suggestions to resolve this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Re: Message notification "Local storage was not properly ejected from Arlo Base" keeps pop

jguerdat — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 14:41:11 GMT

It sounds very much to me like the drive is powering itself down on a timeout and/or the base can't reliably supply enough current to the drive. I'd strongly suggest using a thumb drive instead since they're cheaper and much easier to eject and reinsert than a hard drive.

Re: Message notification "Local storage was not properly ejected from Arlo Base" keeps pop

phetamine — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:32:21 GMT

Thanks, I replaced it with a Kingston thumb drive and that seemed to resolve this problem.