Largest USB drive

[october262]

Hi guys,
have two questions:
1. Is the external USB hard disk connected to the DMS recognized by the network? (DVDFab11> Transfer to MovieServer) Or do I have to disconnect every time the hard drive and go to the PC to draufzuspielen new movies?

2. I have tried in my DMS Vers.2.0.1.0 an internal 4TB hard drive to install. File system tried once with EXT3 and NTFS. Hard disk is not recognized by the DMS. Even formatting via the DMS does not work. A 1TB internal hard disk as NTFS works perfectly. At some point wanted to install a 10TB internal hard drive, but if the 4TB is not already ... What can this be, what am I doing wrong?

Thank you ...

for #2, with the HDD connected to PC - right click my computer button-Manage
Choose Disk Management , you can see you new HDD , right click to format it
make sure it has a volume label.

[signals]

All, concerning USB drives on DMS

The developers tell me there is no size limit designed in, but there may be practical limits.
For drives >2 TB, there are also problems with many external USB drive caddies due to outdated chipsets and drivers, so try the drive(s) in the same caddy on your PC to see if it works there.
If you want a large drive to work on both PC and DMS, connect it to your PC and change the partition style to GPT, then format the new partition using the NTFS file system

[tbrown25]

Komet:

#1: The USB drives can be seen on your network. They are listed as USBa and USBb on the MS.
In the past, DVDFAB software would write to the USB drive directly when the internal drive got full or near full. However there was no ability to control what drive DVDFAB was going to write to on any given transfer. A recent change in the firmware changed this behavior. Now, DVDFAB only writes to the internal drive. Once the internal drive is full, no matter how much space there is on the USB drive(s), DVDFAB software will no longer transfer to the MS. I think this was a bad change to the system and hope that they modify this so you can choose which drive to send the file to within DVDFAB software.
Meanwhile, I leave enough free space on my internal drive to accommodate transfers. Once the transfer is done, I move the files to the USB drive BEFORE re-scanning. To do this I use the file manipulation functions built into the MS itself rather than using a PC so as to avoid the transfers across the network, which are a bit slow. The internal MS file functions do the transfer directly between drives without going across the network.

#2: As SIGNALS said, if your drive is 4 TB or larger, it needs to be configures as a GPT drive to work properly. I also recommend (after setting up as GPT) that you format as NTFS and do a full format.not a quick format.

[Komet]

A lot of useful information that helped me a lot, thank you very much.

1. Have the internal 4TB hard drive formatted on GPT, then on NTFS. Inserted in the DMS and was then formatted successfully again by the DMS. Then reboot and hard drive was detected and works. Have it right with a 4K UHD as m2ts movie tried and runs absolutely easily.

Hope that works later synonymous with a 10TB hard drive, because I want to use the 4TB only for test purposes first.

2. The external USB3.0 hard disk connected to the DMS and integrated on the Win10 PC via the IP address as a network drive. With that I could delete movies via Windows Explorer and play them directly. This worked even if there is no internal hard drive in the DMS. Works great!

Disadvantage! About DVDFab11 I could not play ripped movies directly on the USB hard drive. DVDFab11 gave me the message "too little space" which was not true.

You're right, it would be nice if you could choose in DVDFab11 where to go and also to network bound hard disks are connected to the DMS. Unfortunately, DVDFab made a mistake here, as this function has been dropped!

Stay with the internal hard drive in the DMS, then everything runs perfectly. Later, the 4TB is replaced by a 10TB and I hope the GPT works just as well and works as it does right now.

A request at DVDFab revealed that they even tried with a 14TB internal hard drive and should have worked without problems.