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Good luck on your quest. This issue isn't unique to the legacy D-Link DNS series. When HDD manufacturers adopted AFD to deal with HDDs larger than 2TB, all of the NAS manufacturers were hit with the same issue. Most NAS manufacturers developed firmware fixes with varying levels of success. New NAS models typically support the larger HDDs without issue.