this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
1083 points (97.7% liked)
Technology
76949 readers
3928 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
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.
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.
Is it just my experience but exfat is so much slower on windows than ntfs.
For an external drive? I guess I have never experienced that since external drives are already pretty slow.
Yeah, it was an 860 Evo in an external SSD enclosure. It was like half the speeds of ntfs
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.