Editing AirPort (section)

==AirPort Disk==
The AirPort Disk feature shares a hard disk connected to an AirPort Extreme or Time Capsule (though not AirPort Express), as a small-scale [[Network-attached storage|NAS]]. AirPort Disk can be accessed from Windows and Linux as well as Mac OS X using the SMB/CIFS protocol for FAT volumes, and both SMB/CIFS and AFP for HFS+ partitions. NTFS- or exFAT-formatted volumes are not supported.

Although Windows does not natively support HFS+, an HFS+ volume on an AirPort Disk can be easily accessed from Windows. This is because the SMB/CIFS protocol used to access the disk, and hence access from Windows is filesystem-independent. Therefore, HFS+ is a viable option for Windows as well as OS X users, and more flexible than FAT32 as the latter has a 4&nbsp;GiB file size limit.

Recent firmware versions cause the internal disk and any external USB drives to sleep after periods of time as short as 2 minutes.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}}

A caveat of the use of AirPort Disk is that the AFP port 548 is reserved for the service, which then does not allow for simultaneous use of port forwarding to provide AFP services to external users. This is also true of a Time Capsule setup for use as a network-based Time Machine Backup location, its main purpose and default configuration. An AirPort administrator must choose between using AirPort Disk and providing remote access to AFP services.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}}

The AirPort Extreme or Time Capsule will recognize multiple disks connected via a USB hub.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://support.apple.com/guide/aputility/share-a-usb-hard-disk-on-your-network-aprt2703/mac|title=AirPort Utility User Guide|quote=If you connect a USB hub to an AirPort Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme: You can connect several hard disks to the hub.|website=Apple Inc.}}</ref>