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04-21-2023, 01:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-23-2023, 01:25 PM by Tonewheelkev.)
Using RPi4 with Kingston NVme 1tb drive in an Argon40 case (booting from SD)
Solely playing local files....so no online streaming.
Have loaded 1tb worth of files.....all good so far.
The NVme drive is formatted to NTFS.....so far.....no problems with this.
What....if anything....might be gained by reformatting the drive to Fat32....??
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I'd personally be very sceptical of any claims of sonic differences because of the file system, but I'd bet someone on the internet says there are. Likewise, a file system that works now is unlikely to start misbehaving the future. If your player can read and write to it now, it will continue to do so into the future.
Relax and enjoy your player.
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Fat32 is your best bet. it's fast, has best permission compatibility to native Linux EXT4 permissions and is universally supported on Linux, Windows and Mac.
In Linux environments NTFS is something that would only be used if for some specific reason it needed to be used for example to support existing or legacy NTFS formatted storage.
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It wouldn't have been my first choice, but NTFS has been fully supported in Linux since kernel 5.15 or so. If your drive is internal to your moOde player and being used only for data storage I see no reason to reformat.
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Thanks for the input here!
Will be sticking with the NTFS for now I think...as it's currently working well.
