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Paragon NTFS for IOS
Hi all I am new to Netgear routers and have just purchased a Nighthawk X6 R8000 router to connect to a Virgin super hub to try to eliminate the super hubs short falls Now I have the nighthawk I...
Okay thanks, I think I got that round the wrong way in my head.
So I will format the drive to what best suits my needs that the router can handle, Great thanks
> [...] if I formatted the disk to APFS the windows users will still
> have completed access to edit files etc
Or no one would. See:
I don't see APFS in that list. Again, if you're connecting a storage
device (like a USB-connected disk) to some computer (like the one in
your router), then the file-system software/firmware _on_that_computer_
(your router) needs to deal with the actual file system on the storage
device.
> Your Mac (or other client device) does not deal directly with the remote
> storage device; it deals directly with the file-sharing software
> ("samba", I'd guess) which runs on the file server (the router, in this
> case).
Still true.
In general, I'd expect Netgear to support NTFS better than any
Apple-specific file system.
Okay thanks, I think I got that round the wrong way in my head.
So I will format the drive to what best suits my needs that the router can handle, Great thanks