On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
I use ext4 for my videos, ranging from ~150 MB to ~20 GB. It's very painless and is included directly in the kernel. I went on a very long search for the "best" filesystem for videos and thought to myself the only problem I was having was imaginary, ext4 is fine. Alecks
