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For other routers, please contact the device manufacturer. And what about games consoles? The Playstation from Sony supports external drives with FAT32 and exFAT, the Xbox models from Microsoft ...

Thankfully, Apple lets you capture hi-res videos and write them directly on an external storage drive. The best part ... you need a storage device that can write at 440 MB per second.