Installing ExFAT on QNAP 2024ish

Some updates on my previous “Installing ExFAT on QNAP” posts circa 2017 & 2020 … In 2024ish?, QNAP removed the paid license requirement, so all the hacks I had to perform to get ExFAT to work correctly with broken licensing are no longer needed. Woot. If you can to update to a new version of QTS or QuTS Hero, you’re all set. If not, the advice in the older posts remains valid.

Also, I’m now rocking a bigger QNAP TS-873A – with lots of 12TB drives instead of the 4TBs in my old system.