“Is there a limitation on the size of the USB attached hard disk? I have 3TB WD Elements that is not recognized by the router although it's formatted with NTFS on Windows 7. Found multiple evidence on forums that smaller disks are recognized while the larger are not.”
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To comment on Belkin support answer: The problem seems not to be with the partitions, but rather with the router not recognizing GPT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table) and can only work with MBR (which is 2TB limited). If that's true, then regardless of how you partition, you will not be able to go beyond 2TB which is MBR limitation. The solutions is rather simple: release new firmware which has the Linux kernel recompiled with GPT support. Otherwise you must state this limitation upfront and reimburse the customers who spent their money buying this router and useless hard disks.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.We have tested the N600 router to work with up to a 2tb hard disk. You may need to partition the 3tb drive into 2 or 3 partitions for it to be recognized correctly. Regards, Belkin Support
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