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IAmConfused · 06-22-2024, 02:11 PM

Long story, short version. Just had a catastrophic early (less than 6 mos.) failure of an external 4TB hard drive used for Calibre library back-up. Have a replacement en route. It will arrive formatted ext32. It will be used exclusively on Win 10 via (USB) & is a 3.5 spinner (my experience with 2.5" drives not stellar e.g the current early failure & it on ext32) . Maybe just a gut hunch, or paranoia, but I'm very much inclined to format it to NTFS on receipt before putting it into service.

Am hopeful that the inherent journaling of NTFS may save my bacon down the road but am unsure if perfomance may suffer, or if my current bias is taking me down a road with only imagined benefit. All my internal Windows drives are NTFS.

Am soliciting & would very much welcome any expert advice from Calibre users having large libraries on which way to go. Am using FreeFileSync as my BU tool of choice.

06-22-2024, 02:11 PM	#1
IAmConfused Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: Android Asus Transformer	External HD Format NTFS vs ext32 Long story, short version. Just had a catastrophic early (less than 6 mos.) failure of an external 4TB hard drive used for Calibre library back-up. Have a replacement en route. It will arrive formatted ext32. It will be used exclusively on Win 10 via (USB) & is a 3.5 spinner (my experience with 2.5" drives not stellar e.g the current early failure & it on ext32) . Maybe just a gut hunch, or paranoia, but I'm very much inclined to format it to NTFS on receipt before putting it into service. Am hopeful that the inherent journaling of NTFS may save my bacon down the road but am unsure if perfomance may suffer, or if my current bias is taking me down a road with only imagined benefit. All my internal Windows drives are NTFS. Am soliciting & would very much welcome any expert advice from Calibre users having large libraries on which way to go. Am using FreeFileSync as my BU tool of choice.