Additional test

[toor]

i was wondering if you could run an additional test on the routers you review.

You usually run tests on the usb/esata drives you connect for speed. but could you also run a test with the drive formated as ext3 as well as the fat/ntfs.

Since most of these routers are linux based and alot of the people who put drives on them would probably permanently leave them attached; a comparison would be nice to see the difference when they are not seeing the slowness of the additional overhead of the ntfs driver.

Thanks,

 

[azazel1024]

The issue is that most routers do not support ext3/4. They may be linux based, but with the shipping firmware, most only support FAT32 or NTFS. Some will support exFAT. I haven't see any that actually support ext3/4 out of the box.

 

[toor]

The issue is that most routers do not support ext3/4. They may be linux based, but with the shipping firmware, most only support FAT32 or NTFS. Some will support exFAT. I haven't see any that actually support ext3/4 out of the box.

Really? Cause all of the asus routers I have used do, the new netgear does as well.

The asus ones even have mkfs.ext3 and mkfs.ext2 commands built in.