04-22-2011, 01:09 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-22-2011, 01:10 PM by Annuit Coeptis.)
I recently had to repair a HDD the old fashioned way by moving all the data and reformatting which takes forever when you have 300+ GB of data.
I used to use the exFAT file system on the hard drive because my hard drive is really large and I hear that exFAT does fast file transfers. But it is not compatible with a lot of computers that still run XP and all the comps in my school still run XP.
I reformatted to NTFS for the sake of compatibility but I haven't transferred the data on yet. I am wondering if I made the right decision to use NTFS. I hear good arguments for many filesystems but I haven't decided which to choose.
I wanted to get some feedback from users here about which file system you would use for your external HD.
My external HDD is 930GB.
Let me know what file system is your favourite.
Thanks!
I used to use the exFAT file system on the hard drive because my hard drive is really large and I hear that exFAT does fast file transfers. But it is not compatible with a lot of computers that still run XP and all the comps in my school still run XP.
I reformatted to NTFS for the sake of compatibility but I haven't transferred the data on yet. I am wondering if I made the right decision to use NTFS. I hear good arguments for many filesystems but I haven't decided which to choose.
I wanted to get some feedback from users here about which file system you would use for your external HD.
My external HDD is 930GB.
Let me know what file system is your favourite.
Thanks!