• RamRabbit@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Yeah, you will generally have a better time with exFAT, which is a format both Windows and Linux works with well. All my external drives get formatted as such.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 hours ago

      exFAT is great for compatibility but it doesn’t have journaling, so if there’s a power outage while writing to a file, you can expect the file to get corrupted and unusable (which sucks). apart from that, yeah, it’s great.

      what i can recommend if you’re working in a big organization or group or sth is to use a network drive, i.e. a drive that’s accessed over the network. you typically don’t have problems there.

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        3 hours ago

        For an external drive? I guess I have never experienced that since external drives are already pretty slow.

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      6 hours ago

      I’ think this will be my best bet going forward. I still need to have my windows computer setup for modding, but i’d rather use linux for daily use and torrents.