NTFS or exFAT for large external hard drive?
I'm cancelling all my streaming services. Just bought a huge external hard drive and will be filling with video files. It came formatted to exFAT and upon first opening it my OS gave me a warning about compatibility. Now I'm wondering if I should leave it as is or format it to NTFS.
I will not use it for games. Just video and audio files. I have a dual boot system with Bazzite and Windows 11, but I rarely boot into Windows. Just when a game doesn't run well on Linux. However, if my future PC turns out to be an Nvidia one I might end up gaming and using Windows far more often. Since this will be my main media hub I would want it to remain accessible across both OSes to ensure future compatibility.
My main concern is reliability and not losing my files, and to a lesser extent speed of access. Anything truly important and personal will be backed up elsewhere, but I want to avoid the pain in the ass of having to redownload everything. For reference, power outages during storms do happen on occasion where I live.
I've been on Linux since November and never paid attention to my filing systems before. Checked my current internal hard drive and my previous external hard drive and they're both NTFS. Bazzite just read them out of the box. Should I go out of my way to change this new drive from exFAT to NTFS? Or is it better off as exFAT?