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?
exFAT support for external drives
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Re: exFAT support for external drives
No. Why would a license from one company be transferable to another company?
Read the Online Manuals and use the forum search feature before posting.
It is a recommended to use RAID and have 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.
Submit bugs and feature requests to QNAP via their Helpdesk app.
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It is a recommended to use RAID and have 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.
Submit bugs and feature requests to QNAP via their Helpdesk app.
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Re: exFAT support for external drives
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
How many companies (and which one) invented exFAT file system?
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Don wrote:Why would a license from one company be transferable to another company?
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Re: exFAT support for external drives
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=exfatja666 wrote:How many companies (and which one) invented exFAT file system?
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.
All data storage consists of both the primary storage and the backups. It's your money and your data, spend the storage budget wisely or pay with your 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.
All data storage consists of both the primary storage and the backups. It's your money and your data, spend the storage budget wisely or pay with your data!
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Re: exFAT support for external drives
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.ja666 wrote:The exFAT license is not tranferable between QNAP and Synology NAS-es?
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Re: exFAT support for external drives
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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schumaku wrote: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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Re: exFAT support for external drives
The license is linked to the NAS.
Read the Online Manuals and use the forum search feature before posting.
It is a recommended to use RAID and have 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.
Submit bugs and feature requests to QNAP via their Helpdesk app.
NAS: TVS-882BR | F/W: 4.3.6.0895 | 40GB | 2 x M.2 SATA RAID 1 (System/VMs) | 4 x M.2 NMVe QM2-4P-384A RAID 5 (Cache) | 5 x 4TB HDD RAID 6 (Data) | 1 x Blu-ray
NAS: TVS-663 | F/W: 4.5.1.1540 | 16GB | 2 x M.2 NMVe QM2-2P RAID 1 (Cache) | 4 x 4TB RAID 5
Apps: Boinc, Squid, DNSMasq, PLEX, iDrive, QVPN, QLMS, MP3fs, HBS, Entware, DLstation, +others
It is a recommended to use RAID and have 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.
Submit bugs and feature requests to QNAP via their Helpdesk app.
NAS: TVS-882BR | F/W: 4.3.6.0895 | 40GB | 2 x M.2 SATA RAID 1 (System/VMs) | 4 x M.2 NMVe QM2-4P-384A RAID 5 (Cache) | 5 x 4TB HDD RAID 6 (Data) | 1 x Blu-ray
NAS: TVS-663 | F/W: 4.5.1.1540 | 16GB | 2 x M.2 NMVe QM2-2P RAID 1 (Cache) | 4 x 4TB RAID 5
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Re: exFAT support for external drives
Hello 
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
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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Re: exFAT support for external drives
...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: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 ...
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.Yoyo73 wrote:Why don't they use a free open source driver like this one ?
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Re: exFAT support for external drives
Yoyo73 wrote:Hello
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.
**, i'll ask directly to the support
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Re: exFAT support for external drives
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
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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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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Best wishes,
Homer
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Re: exFAT support for external drives
Ok, I see... for me in my case, it's a waste of money.....
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Re: exFAT support for external drives
Because it does not offer formatting ... how many times are you formatting external storage?AcerTravel wrote:Ok, I see... for me in my case, it's a waste of money.....