On 07 Nov 2011, at 19:23 , Chris Murphy wrote: > If you're going to attached USB flash storage you might as well just stick > with FAT32 and then you've got read/write support built into the router, and > also if you need to yank it and directly plug it into a Mac.
This has actually become a real problem recently. FAT32 doesn’t support files over 4GB, and those files are common enough (DVD images, HD movie files) that FAT32 has become useless for me. However, there is no other alternative that works cross-platform. HFS support in windows is nonexistent without a rather flakey and expensive bit of software ($50 or $70). NTFS support in OS X is similarly flakey and expensive (€25) and glacially slow. Sadly, most routers with USB for hard drives either only support FAT32, or only support FAT32/NTFS. OS X supports xfs, but I didn’t have good look under 10.6 with it. Besides, my router support ext2/3, FAT32, and NTFS, so it wouldn’t help anyway. Add to that the simple fact that the interface on the routers is dead-slow, and you will probably find that you don’t want to hook a drive up anyway, unless it’s to an Apple base Station (these seem to have comparatively dent drive performance). -- A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.
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