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Re: exFAT support for external drives

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ja666 wrote:The exFAT license is not tranferable between QNAP and Synology NAS-es?
No. Why would a license from one company be transferable to another company?
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ja666 wrote:The exFAT license is not tranferable between QNAP and Synology NAS-es?
In my sense, how they can be interchangeable?
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Re: exFAT support for external drives

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How many companies (and which one) invented exFAT file system?

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ja666 wrote:How many companies (and which one) invented exFAT file system?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=exfat
RAID have never ever been a replacement for backups. Without backups on a different system (preferably placed at another site), you will eventually lose data!

A non-RAID configuration (including RAID 0, which isn't really RAID) with a backup on a separate media protects your data far better than any RAID-volume without backup.

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Re: exFAT support for external drives

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ja666 wrote:The exFAT license is not tranferable between QNAP and Synology NAS-es?
No. The license is not even transferable from an old to a new NAS - very similar to a Microsoft OEM license, the license is linked to the hardware.
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To the hardware like HDDs (OEM). Do they offer exFAT licence transfer with HDDs transfer (from an old to a new NAS)? Where the similarity is?

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The license is linked to the NAS.
Use the forum search feature before posting.

Use RAID and external backups. RAID will protect you from disk failure, keep your system running, and data accessible while the disk is replaced, and the RAID rebuilt. Backups will allow you to recover data that is lost or corrupted, or from system failure. One does not replace the other.

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Re: exFAT support for external drives

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Hello 8)

I bought exFat driver yesterday.
Everything looks fine (I'm using QTS QTS 4.3.2) except the fact that i can't format externals USB devices into that filesystem ...
So I wonder if this is not a joke for the price they sold it ...

Why don't they use a free open source driver like this one ? https://github.com/relan/exfat
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Yoyo73 wrote:Everything looks fine (I'm using QTS QTS 4.3.2) except the fact that i can't format externals USB devices into that filesystem ...
...appears to be a lost or "forgotten" feature. About first question to QNAP was about the lack of set or change a volume label (for external storage shared folder creation) and about the lack of a format option. It's promised that the final 4.3 release should cover it all.
Yoyo73 wrote:Why don't they use a free open source driver like this one ?
Open Source and "free" does not mean license and loyalty free. The commercial non-native file systems perform in general much better than the open source implementations.
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Yoyo73 wrote:Hello 8)

I bought exFat driver yesterday.
Everything looks fine (I'm using QTS QTS 4.3.2) except the fact that i can't format externals USB devices into that filesystem ...
So I wonder if this is not a joke for the price they sold it ...
+1 in the Club. Just bought the license and with great surprise i found that is not possible to format an external drive, and this is written nowhere.
Damn, i'll ask directly to the support
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Any news ?
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I've opened the ticket on friday night, i expect that QNAP will contact me within few days. As soon as i've any news i'll post here :)
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Re: exFAT support for external drives

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Here's the reply:

Dear Davide,

May I know whether you formatted the external drive with exFAT by Windows or Mac system?

Tutorial: https://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/tutorial ... a-qnap-nas
Using exFAT devices on QNAP NAS:

After connecting exFAT devices to your QNAP NAS, you can view them in "Storage Manager" > "External Device". You can also access the files stored on these exFAT devices using File Station.

To format a device to use exFAT file system, use a Windows PC or related utilities on another OS. For more information about formatting devices in Windows 7, please visit https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel ... partition/



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Ok, I see... for me in my case, it's a waste of money.....
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AcerTravel wrote:Ok, I see... for me in my case, it's a waste of money.....
Because it does not offer formatting ... how many times are you formatting external storage?
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