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best file system for storage?

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nstgc:
AS said already, ZFS. If I weren't so lazy I would use it myself, but currently I use ext3. I've heard its actually more secure than ext4, although much MUCH slower.

kitamesume:
redundant storage = raid1
simple storage = NTFS or exFAT
other reasons = ZFS or ext4

anyway, why bother when you aren't gonna be stepping outside of a terrabyte of storage, only start considering once you have over 3TB worth of files.
if you only have 2HDDs or less you could just literally mirror it for redundancy and wouldn't bother with anything else.

halfelite:
My 20tb box is running ext4 but its not for the faint as the tool for ext4 did not support over 16tb out of the box without recompiling them with the correct flags set. I plan on moving over to ZFS on my next big build. The only issue with zfs is you lose a lot of drive space, if you run raidz each dev gets a drive taken away and its recommend to only keep 4 or so drives in a dev

ConsiderPhlebas:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on November 02, 2012, 12:16:37 PM ---redundant storage = raid1
simple storage = NTFS or exFAT
other reasons = ZFS or ext4

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Uh, I may be really ignorant, but AFAIK RAID isn't a file system? You still have to choose that...

I just use NTFS, haven't really had any issues. I know it's not state of the art, but good enough for what I do. And I archive on DVD anyway. Real old-fashioned guy, heh  ::)

buchno:

--- Quote from: ConsiderPhlebas on November 03, 2012, 06:52:21 PM ---Uh, I may be really ignorant, but AFAIK RAID isn't a file system? You still have to choose that...

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That is correct.

I'd use ext4 if I had some place to store all my stuff in between changing from ntfs...

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