6 to up to 1.6 TB available external hard drive formats

Just bought a 6 TB external HD. When the formatting only to 1.6 is available. Why?

Connected via Firewire 800.

OS X extended (journaled)

GUID Partition map

Computer: Mac mini (mid 2011)

OS: El Capitan

Hard disk: disk red 6TB WD NAS hard drive - SATA 6 Gb/s 64 MB Cache, 5400 RPM class 3.5 inches

Hello Welcome to Apple Support communities, and Curtis

I guess that you'e using disk utility to do the formatting? Your problem seems curiou, this looks like a problem, I used to have with 32 - bit systems, but since your Mac Mini is a 64-bit computer, this should be irrelevant. Maybe El Capitan can simply not fomt a player as such.

Out of curiosity, have you tried to format the drive Seagate on another machine but also your box Seagate does support a USB 3.0? It is much faster than FireWire, it will be better fair access to juice a big drive.

Kind regards

Peter.

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