How to format EXT4 (or best format) and best hard drive?

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@Jazzbouche

ok - so received the new drives, and am struggling to format them ext4. They seem to partition when formatted as NTFS or ExFAT, due to using GUID. this then shows up as SDA1 and SDA2 on the osmc - and that’s where it starts to deviate from your terminal command lines. Ultimately it doesn’t show up on the osmc.

To make things worse, Samba doesn’t seem to work now either. I can’t seem to connect.

Post output of lsblk -f and paste-log -A