Wndr4700 media router formatting hfs internal hard drive

Recently switched over to all macs in our house.  I was thinking about getting a Netgear Wmdr4700 instead of a time capsule.  The router utility can only format hard drives as ext4 which from what I've read is not read/write compatible with macs without additional software.  However the router supports and recognizes pre formatted  hfs+, or hfs+ journaled drives.  Any ideas on how I can format an internal hard drive with a Mac mini or MacBook Air before installing it in the router?  Mabye I'm missing something...

Hello,
here is some info to help you out.
time machine will work perfectly fine with ext4 file system this is the default file system for the unit, i have have other netgear NAS devices with ext4 and btrfs and they also work fine with time machine. but if you so desire...
to format the drive with HFS+ you would need to do this via USB sata enclosure attached to mac mini or macbook air they cost about $20-30 the other option is if you know anyone with older mac pro (tower) they could format if for you or take it a place that repairs computers and they should be able to do this in just a few mins if they have a mac around, makes sure you create only 1 partition, GUID and choose mac osx entended journaled. make sure the wndr4700 firmware is updated first...ver 1.0.0.52 is the latest...then add newly formatted HFS+ drive  turn back on and wait until unit shows green HD lights up on front. then follow instuctions to backup..my other advice is to buy an external 2.5 inch USB 3 drive as a secondary backup for your macs using time machine as well attaching it to your macs once a month (dont attach it to the netgear, even though you could), for backup...1 drive will work for several macs, buy according to size needed, backup once a month to this as well and then hide drive in your sock drawer, 2 backups are better than 1, good luck.
once your backups are all done, upgrade all your MACs to mavericks for free!!!!

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