Arlo Pro Local USB storage formatting

[boci]

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.

[TomMac]

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

[commiepinkofag]

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.

[jguerdat]

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.

[commiepinkofag]

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.

[jguerdat]

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

[ranran]

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?

[jguerdat]

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

[ranran]

Thank you!