HT204057: AirPort base stations: Time Machine hard drive compatibility
Learn about AirPort base stations: Time Machine hard drive compatibility
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Mar 23, 2015 9:49 PM in response to Lmlabarraby Tesserax,USB hard drives, attached to an AirPort Extreme or Time Capsule, work best when formatted as HFS+. Those formatted in FAT32 will work as well. Drives formatted in NTFS or ExFAT will not work.
When properly shared out, this drive can be accessed from both Macs and PCs, as well as, Linux-based computers. For PCs, this drive is considered a network drive and accessing it would be the same.