Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 25.12.2012 16:41, schrieb Mark Knecht: >> Hi, >> Merry Christmas to all. >> >> Upgrading an external USB2 drive at home this Christmas morning to >> 1TB for more video storage space. One large partition, non-raid, files >> are around 1GB. The drive holds only static video files that get >> written once and don't change or get erased. No MythTV stuff or >> anything like that. >> >> This disk reside on my main desktop machine and gets backed up >> every couple of days to another USB2 drive (FAT formatted >> unfortunately) which attaches to the TV. >> >> With the previous local drive I used ext3 and have had no problems. >> I'm just wondering if there's a better choice & why. >> >> Cheers, >> Mark >> > Ext4 offers better performance for large files. This is especially > notable when you remove them but other operations are faster, too. XFS > would be the traditional large-file choice but since the arrival of > Ext4, I don't see a point in putting up with its quirks anymore. > > Regards, > Florian Philipp >
For those who keep up with my adventures, I use ext4 for my home directory which has a LOT of videos. Some videos are small and some are large but I can say this, it is really fast. No fragmentation either. I also use ext4 for my backup drive. I accidentally deleted some stuff one day and I can say this, it is VERY fast. I'm just glad it was only a backup. I would second the idea for ext4. It works great for me. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
