In defense of @Netduma-Fraser by yet another Netgear customer: Netduma is a supplier for some of the technology implemented on the Nightawk Pro Gaming routers, not the vendor or maker of the complete router. The hardware, the base platform OS, and many services like ReadyShare are coming from Netgear. Unfortunately, Netgear has a looong history of broken and incomplete ReadyShare (SMB) implementations on many of their consumer class products. Bottom up, many external storage devices are not recognized, due to various possible reasons (e.g. different partition schemes), USB power, basic USB device detection, ... on any router models. The community is full with these. Let's also take the example that none of these products does come with WS-Discovery - the de-facto industry standard on workgroups replacing the legacy NetBIOS host discovery and name resolution in newer Windows 10 editions - "just" implementing SMB3 alone doesn't make it workable. Comparing to all this, the absence of a working ext4 (geee, exotic for the majority of the Netgear customers) file system support, would be really a snap to fix - I can't agree more. However, the true standard file systems for the typical Netgear customers are NTFS, plus more and more exFAT - the standard file systems for external storage does come from the factory.
Hi,
For my own sanity, could someone test as well?
I tried exFat on 3 different USB sticks, 1 SSD, 1 HDD, different cases. It is not recognize either... Of course I don't apply any restriction on the USB devices.
Re: [XR500] External USB 3.0 HDD formated in ext4 does not show up in ReadyShare storage
I haven't said the XR500 (nor any other Netgear router officiailly) does support exFAT ... just that this is coming up more and more, becoming a standard.
The router supports the following file system types for full read/write access: • FAT16 • FAT32 • NTFS • NTFS with compression format enabled • Ext2 • Ext3 • Ext4 • HFS • HFS+
I haven't said the XR500 (nor any other Netgear router officiailly) does support exFAT ... just that this is coming up more and more, becoming a standard.
The router supports the following file system types for full read/write access: • FAT16 • FAT32 • NTFS • NTFS with compression format enabled • Ext2 • Ext3 • Ext4 • HFS • HFS+
I am not sure to understand what brings your initial comment about exFat... It is particularly misleading.
On my side, I should have checked that exFat was in the list. So let's focus on the list provided by Netgear and for this thread Ext4
