Are Western Digital drives trustworthy these days. If I want to buy a pretty big non-flash hard drive for "backup and throw in a drawer" purposes, is this a good choice
https://www.amazon.ca/Elements-Portable-External-Drive-WDBU6Y0050BBK-WESN/dp/B07X41PWTY
ME: I want a 5 TB hard drive
Amazon: We can do that
Canada Computers: I can give you 12 TB for twice the price
Christine: Wait, Canada Computers has 12 TB drives for *how* much? Get two
Me, walking back from yonge-dundas square the next morning, absolutely twisted, carrying 24 TB of platter drives:
Hey if I want to format an HD for archival purposes, and I want it to be accessible from both Windows* and Linux** without problems, do I use… exfat? Will exfat freak out if I format it at absurdly high sizes like 12 TB, or give me an annoyingly high "minimum file size" or something? Are there any more-reliable/journaled FSes that both these OSes are happy with?
* 10
** Let's say Debian Trixie
Okay but seriously: Should I NTFS? People are saying the Linux NTFS driver is "pretty good" "perfectly adequate" is "adequate" what I'm looking for with my backup HD
@[email protected] chaos option: ntfs as the Linux ntfs driver is pretty good these days.
@nabijaczleweli @mcc there are two NTFS implementations, ntfs-3g and ntfs-plus. Plus is faster and considered more modern, but iirc at least one Linux distro still prefers 3g because they consider plus buggy.
Regardless, my understanding is that neither of them actually support basic features like the journal, so I wouldn't trust them for anything important personally. That said they might not be worse than exfat, just very very complicated in comparison.
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