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exFat or ext3, that is the question....
I have windows 7, the NV+ uses ext3 but W7 does not, it uses NTFS or exFat for large volumes. My concern is simply that if my NAS goes belly-up, I want to be able to access the data on the backup driv...
plockerman wrote: Or will Netgear/Readynas adopt the more efficient exFat?
Given exfat is Microsoft-proprietary and requires licensing (for a fee), I would very much doubt we will be seeing it on a Linux based ReadyNAS in the near future
ext3 is your best bet - the following (despite the name) has been commented to allow ext3 & ext4 disks to be read under Windows 7 (including 64 bit version): http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/
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