I have Plex Media Server running on one of my two Nvidia Shield TV Pro devices, I have a WD Black P10 (5TB) HDD connected to my TP-Link Archer AX20 router via my home network. Everything works fine, but I am now in the process of ‘tidying up’ the HDD, it is currently formatted using exFAT, but I wanted to kindly ask is this the best file system to use for my purposes? Would NTFS be better? What does everyone else with a similar set-up use please?
Thanks for any help or advice!
Andrew.
Is there a particular issue you’re trying to address by reformatting the HDD? Given you’re sharing the drive via your router, the formatting won’t particularly matter when it comes to connecting from other devices (the Archer is exposing the drive via some network file protocol independently).
Hi Tom, Thanks for your reply. No, there are no problems or issues at all, it works perfectly. I’m just wiping the HDD before putting content back on it, after I’ve had a sort out and removed stuff I don’t want anymore, and wondered if there are any advantages in using NTFS instead over exFAT.
I only have Windows PCs, and all the content is large video and audio files.
I suppose if it’s working, there’s no hard need to change it… exFAT should give you some more compatibility if you ever end up directly connecting the drive to another device.
In that case I will keep it as exFAT, as there is no point to change it if there are no performance benefits to be had by changing to NTFS.
Thanks!
Andrew.
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