I have just purchased and installed an N600 device, also updated it to the latest firmware, 1.04.16.
I was trying to connect an external USB storage device and I found a serious issue:
It appearch that the N600 does NOT support exFat formatted devices.
FAT, FAT32 and NTFS formatted drives work. You’re certainly aware of the limitations of FAT and FAT32 in terms supported size and max. number of directory entries. NTFS has never been developed for using it on external flash drives either. It is also difficult to work with NTFS filesystems from OS X.
exFAT has been around for a 5-6 years now and was introduced by Microsoft to address the limitattions of FAT and FAT32.
I am very surprised that WD did not consider supporting it, although it widely supported (among others by both Microsoft and Apple)
SUMMARY
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* The list of supported filesystems on external usb storage devices is MISSING from the product specification.
* exFAT formatted usb external devices SEEM NOT to work with N600
Thanks
