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Nov 5, 2018 | 1:56 am

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deniah

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Originally Posted by BigLar

I was intrigued by the USB port on the router - they tout that it can be used to attach a USB hard drive which would then become available to all users of the router. Great!

But then I found out it has to be either: FAT32 (which can top out at 32GB unless you have another way to format it) or the Apple extended format. neither of which appeal to me. It also doesn't support NTFS.

Well ...

FAT32 volumes can be larger. The only real limitation is the single-file limitation of 4GB, which would apply for example to large videos.
Most decent routers have built in NAS or other file sharing function with USB ports... that feature getting quite common

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