seperis | question on hard drive formats and movie files

I asked this on twitter, but there are vidders here who may have the answer that might not see it.

Hardware:
1.) 500G SSD in an exteral USB 3.0 enclosure (It was like super on sale)

Places:
1.) Windows 10 PC (Manhattan)
2.) Kubuntu 20.04 Server (Watson)
3.) RAX Router via USB 3.0. (To which a five bay hard drive enclosure is attached)

Why:
Moving 4K rips and 2160, 1080, and 720 encodes in any video format to and fro at will.

I need to format the hard drive in the best way to assure compatibility and mountability to all of them and be able to transfer files to and from all. Yes, there's the LAN but sometimes you want your 4K rip transferred in under an hour and change to the other machine five feet away. Yes, I will indeed have to actually stand up and that's a genuine shame.

NTFC and ext4 are both no, but fat32 or exfat or something else? Which one would work best so they'll be recognize, read-write without trauma and automount (or rather, I can easily update the fstab for automount in Kubuntu)?

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Hi there! Storage nerd here - some thoughts - NTFS is supported well by all of those platforms, any reason you don't want to use it? RAX Manual (p 121), install "ntfs-3g" for Kubuntu for write support, and Windows can do it fine.

As far as the other options, FAT32 has a 4GB file size limit, and if you're transporting streams, probably going to bite you at some point. exfat is better, but isn't supported on that router, and there's a third party ext4 read/write driver for Windows if you want to use that.

(Also, sorry my reply was initially so brief! I was in a bit of a rush when I wrote it! Please feel free to ask any follow up questions or whatever :)

edited at: Date: 2020-06-21 03:41 am (UTC)

Oh bless you. I didn't know exfat isn't supported by the router, either; good thing I decided to do a testing phase and try different types to see what works before starting regular use. Thank you!

So NTFS sounds like my best option for compatibility on all of them. I already mounted my Windows shares to the server to get a little faster transfer (I don't know why, but transferring files between my laptop and the server (or laptop to router, or server to router) is about twice as fast on the LAN if I do it over ssh command line after mounting the Windows share and router shares); they're read-write, and apparently, ntfs-3g was installed (whee!).

Thanks so much! I owe you.

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