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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...
While I don't know for sure (as I've not done it) I see no reason why an ext4 formatted USB disk would not be accessible from a NAS that supports ext4 on the internal drives (ie all the x86 based NAS running recent firmware) - format & connectivity are usually independant, so please give it a go and report back
As a format, ext4 does have some performance advantages over ext3, but the limit of performance in this scenario will be the USB connection rather than anything else
As a format, ext4 does have some performance advantages over ext3, but the limit of performance in this scenario will be the USB connection rather than anything else
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