NAS drive with NTFS support?

[cubby1223]

Never thought I'd have to ask this question. I want to get a network attached storage drive that supports NTFS, not for security reasons but to store files above 4gb. I bought a Buffalo DriveStation only to find after tinkering with it, that the drive does not support NTFS through the network port.

Does another brand support it? I don't want to keep going through the expense of buying a drive of every manufacturer until I hit upon a winner.

Thanks.

 

[Blain]

HD-HCU2 DriveStation User Guide...

"By default, the DriveStation is formatted with FAT32, allowing it to be used with
OS X, Windows, and Linux operating systems.
If you?re going to use it with programs that generate flesizes larger than 4GB, such as backup or video editing software, reformat the DriveStation as an NTFS drive (Windows), a Mac OS Extended drive (Mac), or an XFS drive (Linux)."

This doesn't apply to your DriveStation?

 

[cubby1223]

The DriveStations can be connected either by usb or lan, ntfs is only supported through usb.

 

[pcgeek11]

We have several of the 1TB Linkstation Pros at work and they are using NTFS over the network connection. It is using an NT Based embedded OS as its foundation... What makes you think it cannot use NTFS?

pcgeek11

 

[JackMDS]

Windows Home Server can work as an excellent NAS.

http://www.ezlan.net/WHS.html

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...ght_key=y&keyword1=WHS

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: pcgeek11
What makes you think it cannot use NTFS?

pcgeek11

He tinkered with it.

Originally posted by: cubby1223
...after tinkering with it, that the drive does not support NTFS through the network port.

 

[cubby1223]

Originally posted by: pcgeek11
What makes you think it cannot use NTFS?

Moderators on Buffalo's tech support forum confirming it doesn't work
http://forums.buffalotech.com/...ssage?message.uid=9949


Perhaps it works with Linkstations just not drivestations, I do not know.

 

[JackMDS]

The standalone NAS' use open source, or inexpensive propriety schemes as firmware.

The firmware is the NAS' OS, thus none of them supports NTFS.

 

[Crusty]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
The standalone NAS' use open source, or inexpensive propriety schemes as firmware.

The firmware is the NAS' OS, thus none of them supports NTFS.

Which is why they should stick to Linux based firmwares and use EXT3 or even EXT4 now. Both are superior to NTFS in my opinion, mostly because they are free

 

[CSMR]

Do NASes still not support NTFS?

I am looking for a NAS but the last time I had one I found the lack of NTFS support was a big inconvenience.

 

[mfenn]

Do NASes still not support NTFS?

I am looking for a NAS but the last time I had one I found the lack of NTFS support was a big inconvenience.

There are Linux NTFS drivers out there that work fine, but including them in a commercial product is tricky. Most NAS vendors can't go toe to toe with the MS legal team.

 

[Cerb]

Samba rarely gets permissions just right w/ Windows ACLs, so you generally handle it at the share level, but the underlying disk file system generally isn't even known, unless you dig through an admin interface.

With Samba itself being odd about permissions (usually on new files, or trying to write to empty dirs), supporting NTFS won't do much, if any, good. Not only do they not want to risk legal threats against themselves, but using a FS driver that's known stable inside the kernel makes the most sense in general (JFS1, EXT3, EXT4, UFS, or ZFS), and aside from saving you a small amount of time by being able to preload data on a drive, rather than do it over the network, there's not much in the way of pros, IMV.

 

[mfenn]

I took the OP's question to be that he wants to be able to plug in an NTFS formatted USB drive and share that data out.

 

[CSMR]

I get it.

It can be quite a long time to fill up a large hard drive over a network connection, plus may need an extra drive compared to just plugging in a regular NTFS format drive with files in.

Shame MS doesn't license NTFS especially as they have existed this market by abandoning WHS.