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    USB Drive Size, File System Recommendations, and Time Machine on Asus Merlin Routers

    The 100,000 bands limit comes from legacy issues with HFS+, where performance and filesystem stability were much more sensitive to the number of files in a directory. Many articles and blogs still recycle this number as a blanket recommendation, but those are outdated assumptions for APFS. APFS...
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    USB Drive Size, File System Recommendations, and Time Machine on Asus Merlin Routers

    I guess that was a typo - 100,000 (100k not 100)? Performance tend to slow down with too many bands. If slow media is used + network share, it could get messy with time-outs etc. P.S.: One should use larger band sizes than default 8MB for large sparsbundle files (for example 2TB file with 32MB...
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    USB Drive Size, File System Recommendations, and Time Machine on Asus Merlin Routers

    MacOS users should generally not worry about Time Machine backup being corrupt. MacOS performs consistency checks on Time Machine sparsebundle files, as follows: During Backups: Time Machine verifies the integrity of individual files as they are written, ensuring that data is correctly copied...
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    USB Drive Size, File System Recommendations, and Time Machine on Asus Merlin Routers

    A bit more info on 2.4GHz interference with USB 3: https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/327216.pdf Agree, spinning HDD's in this configuration is asking for trouble. SSDs, however, are a different story; they’re becoming larger, more affordable, and often come with high-quality shielded...
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    USB Drive Size, File System Recommendations, and Time Machine on Asus Merlin Routers

    While browsing the forums, I noticed some confusion regarding the maximum supported drive size, the best file system to use, and how to set up Time Machine on Asus Merlin routers. I tested and confirmed the following on the GT-AX11000, GT-AXE16000, and GT-BE98 models: Quick Summary: Maximum...
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