topic Re: Base Station VMB4000r3 in Arlo

Base Station VMB4000r3

DNI123 — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:31:20 GMT

Adding external 2TB storage device.

Shows slider to record locally but says drive needs to be formatted. When you click Format USB device, it asks to format. After clicking yes, it takes about 2 seconds and returns to screen so no formatting action happening.

It did change the name of the drive but that's it.

Doesn't show available space and the "safely eject local storage" does nothing.

Current firmware version: 1.20.4.1_4214_d606780

I've see this: https://community.arlo.com/t5/Arlo-Pro/Arlo-Pro-Base-Station-VMB4000r3-fails-formatting-USB-Drives/m-p/1720948#M61030

but that references a really old firmware update. Not looking to retrofix the firmware. 🙂

If you have a workaround to format it not using the base station, I'll take that.

Any assistance would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Base Station VMB4000r3

StephenB — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 18:48:34 GMT

@DNI123 wrote:

If you have a workaround to format it not using the base station, I'll take that.

You should be able to format it in a PC using FAT32.

Re: Base Station VMB4000r3

jguerdat — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 17:26:47 GMT

If you note the warning when setting up local storage you'll see that thumb drives are recommended, not hard drives. Besides, 2TB is gross overkill for this usage - a cheap 64GB drive will hold an awful lot of videos.