You can attach either USB hard drives or USB flash drives to the DockStation. At any time you can disconnect a drive from the DockStation and connect directly to a system's USB port-although in this case, you do need to make sure that the client system's OS supports the drive's file system. No matter what a particular drive's file system is-as long as the DockStation supports it-any Windows, Mac, or Linux client can read from it and write to it. Once a properly formatted drive is attached, the file system that the drive is formatted with is completely irrelevant to any networking client that attaches to the drive through the DockStation. The good news is that the DockStation supports a wide range of file systems: NTFS, FAT32, Mac OS Extended Journaled, Mac OS non-Journaled (HFS+), ext2, and ext3. You have to activate the DockStar online before you can start using it. ![]() There is one caveat, however, that isn't mentioned in the manual: Whatever drives you connect to the DockStation must already be formatted-unlike more robust NAS devices, the DockStation does not include the ability to format attached disks. Getting up and running with the DockStation is very easy: you simply connect the device's power adapter, connect the Ethernet port to your router, attach your USB drives, and activate the device over the Internet.
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