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.
@mcc I've had some issues with NTFS, mostly if my computer crashes, I need to boot into Windows and do chkdsk /f on them to repair them. Other than that it works mostly fine.
Steam on Linux does not seem to like NTFS (I've had a couple of games work on NTFS but loads more not) but if it's just for archival I guess that won't be an issue?
mcc
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