Is it better to use exFAT than NTFS for a music/video library?

[john2in3]

Since both mac and windows read exFAT, does it make sense to store the music library as exFAT? exFAT has less overhead than NTFS and is therefore (I have read that) read operations are faster and cleaner. It would seem to be a better choice performance wise.

 

The only disadvantages it has would not seem to be relevant:

- not compatible with old versions of windows or old OSX

- not good if you eject the disk while it is writing (only relevant to flash memory cards)

- no user account security on a per file basis (which would add overhead and slow it down)

- larger cluster size than NTFS (not relevant for our large music files)

 

Seems to be a no brainer, have people looked into this?

 

[PeterSt]

larger cluster size than NTFS (not relevant for our large music files)

 

This is relevant for speed. So, for a music disk under NTFS I always choose the largest cluster size.

 

Whether this is all relevant for SQ ... I guess so. But I never tried it out ...

 

Peter

 

 

 

[The Computer Audiophile]

Because Macs can't write to an NTFS disk easily I've rules out NTFS as a good format for many things.