Last night, I looked in on the Channel for the first time in a few months.
#HOW TO FORMAT SEAGATE DRIVE FOR TABLO TV#
With the great Tablo database management, I decided that would also be a great help with my ancient Channel Master, which only has the primitive 2-week TV schedule to manage recording. It still work great!.and still very silent. First jump into the shallow end, I attached the old MyBook 2TB to my Dual Lite. I still had the original 8-year-old WD MyBook USB 3.0 2TB that had been attached to my C-M, but was now just laying fallow. The price for the Dual Lite had gone up to $139. I first decided that when the Dual Lite was selling for $99, but didn’t pull the trigger until last week. After a lot of researching, hemming and hawing, and with very limited discretionary monthly dollars from my SSI, I decided to first get a Dual Lite to jump into this pool at the shallow end first. Here we are in September, and here’s my situation now. Thanks to all of you for the very informative, and helpful replies. If I buy a Tablo Quad and a 1TB internal HDD, can I add an 8TB external in a few months? The economics (fortunately, now single again, so no “wife constraints”), are still a major consideration with a tiny monthly income. I’m a 74-year-old “pensioner”, as the Brits would say, on a very limited income. Now, about to buy a new Tablo Quad, I’m wondering if I can have both an internal & external HDD supported without problems. What I really wanted to do with the C-M old files was transcode them (to MP-4?) for Plex, but that didn’t work out. When I ‘installed’ the new external HDD, it needed to go through the Linux ‘ext’ formatting routine from the C-M DVR. The Channel Master format was Linux (Ext format), and apparently, the file table was internal to the Channel Master DVR, not the hard drive. I got to the point where I bought another 2TB external, (2TB being Channel Master’s largest supported HDD), and hoped to recover the saved 2TB of files with my computer. It was extremely quiet, and the only problem I had was that it filled up, and I had to constantly ravage (erase) saved files to make room for more. Both have run flawlessly from the very beginning, and BTW, I was very happy with the My Book HDD. I connected it to a 2TB My Book USB3 external HDD.
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#HOW TO FORMAT SEAGATE DRIVE FOR TABLO PC#
It's really far better to use ExFAT or NTFS if this is only for PC use.I’m considering buying a Quad, and have a question about internal/external drives.Īs background, I bought a Channel Master TV DVR in 2011, and have been very happy with it.
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And you're still stuck with a 4GB maximum file size. That seems to line up with what I remember, although I have no idea where I heard this originally, so the info might be wrong.Įven if you got that to work, compatibility might be limited with different OSes and devices. From some quick googling it seems that the 512 byte sector size is what is holding back FAT32 from supporting larger partitions, so if you have a drive with a larger sector size, AND you're able to format it with a cluster size >64KB, then larger partitions will work. I don't remember any details about this though.
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Cluster size you can increase when you format it, but sector size is a hard limit in the drive.
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The second requirement has something to do with the cluster size, or the actual sector size of the drive itself. The drive must be using the GPT partition scheme because MBR has a hard limit of 2TB.Ģ. Click to expand.I seem to remember this being possible as well, with a couple of requirements.ġ.