Looking to buy a hard drive to use as network drive with EA4500, help with compatibility options

I need a new hard drive, I would like at least a 2TB, or more ideally a 3TB.  The only drive I see on the list that would work is the STAY 3000100 Expansion 3TB External HD USB 2.0.  There is another 3TB drive that shows as being compatible, but it's a Western Digital and I haven't had good luck with WD.  I was wondering if anyone else has a 2TB or 3TB drive that they are using successfully, even though it's not on the tested compatible list.  I have already tried using my OWC Mercury On-The-Go 1TB, and it won't even recognize a drive as being plugged in.  Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.  

As far as I know, that is the only list of compatible drives with the router.  So, yes, that is the list I am referring to when I said "compatible drive list".   There are very few 2TB or 3TB drives on the list.  I would really like to be able to use a 3TB drive with a couple partitions, and that seems almost impossible with very few options.  I have been reading around the last couple days and I hear lots of reports of people successfully using drives that are not on the tested compatible list.  I just wanted to know more options from people like that.  

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