external drive and Cannot allocate memory

[wangjunabc]

Hi there,
recently, I bought a WD MY BOOK 4 TB external hard drive and plug it into my AC56U's (runs Merlin 376.45) USB 3.0. It works well, but after the disk health scan, I got the message like this:

Failed to calloc 122093248 bytes: Cannot allocate memory
Checking cluster allocation ...
ERROR(12): Failed to setup allocation bitmap: Cannot allocate memory

Does anyone know why it happens and how to fix it?
Or do I need to return the hard drive?

Thank you.

 

[ChikkSpot]

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/forums/showpost.php?p=137916&postcount=204

 

[Jimmy8881]

Hi there,
recently, I bought a WD MY BOOK 4 TB external hard drive and plug it into my AC56U's (runs Merlin 376.45) USB 3.0. It works well, but after the disk health scan, I got the message like this:

Failed to calloc 122093248 bytes: Cannot allocate memory
Checking cluster allocation ...
ERROR(12): Failed to setup allocation bitmap: Cannot allocate memory

Does anyone know why it happens and how to fix it?
Or do I need to return the hard drive?

Thank you.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/forums/showpost.php?p=137916&postcount=204

Seems to be a bug with 4tb drives and the NTFS driver that asus used on the 376.. firmware. Try using the older 374 firmware.

 

[Blunderbuss]

This is EXACTLY the issue I've been having with my Samsung D3. Searched everywhere and couldn't find any solutions, except this post. However, I can't find the old firmware to download. Can anyone provide a link?

 

[Rankdropper84]

Neither of my 5TB Seagate drives have this problem.

 

[jegesq]

This is EXACTLY the issue I've been having with my Samsung D3. Searched everywhere and couldn't find any solutions, except this post. However, I can't find the old firmware to download. Can anyone provide a link?

http://www.asus.com/microsite/2014/networks/routerfirmware_update/

or

http://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca/

 

[RussellInCincinnati]

$66 dollar NAS to solve all your problems?

Hi there,
recently, I bought a WD MY BOOK 4 TB external hard drive and plug it into my AC56U's (runs Merlin 376.45) USB 3.0. It works well, but after the disk health scan

Am wondering why you ran a disk health scan. Does your drive work fine, except for after/while running a disk health scan? If it does, then this does not seem like a big problem. Especially if you have some other USB-equipped computer in your ecosystem, that you can plug the drive into now and then to do a disk integrity scan.

If you really have 4000 gigabytes of stuff in a $130 dollar MyBook to keep track of, maybe it's worth buying a super low end single drive/diskless NAS to manage the storage. After all, you can't possibly be wanting the higher transfer speeds of more expensive NAS's, or else you wouldn't be happy with the super slow USB port storage performance of an AC56u.

Even the lowest end $66 dollar Synology dual-USB-port NAS
http://www.amazon.com/NSA310-Network-Attached-Storage-Server/dp/B005TJLU24
has tons of storage features that are far beyond what you can do with a USB external drive plugged into a WiFi router...that has only the most basic support for storage devices and by no means is meant to be any kind of professional file server.