[NBLUG/talk] File System recommendation needed

[jezra]

Hi everyone, 
Thank you all for your input. All of the data has been copied to the
1TB drive and it is now an EXT4 partition which is mounted
noatime,relatime. 

On Sat, 18 May 2013 20:50:27 -0700
Michael Tucker <mchltckr80 at gmail.com> wrote:

> You could always setup an extra disk with RAID configuration for
> faster access or redundancy too, considering the hardware mentioned
> being a factor and the fact that your last disk was beeping by the
> time you replaced it. On May 18, 2013 2:10 PM, "Jordan Erickson"
> <jerickson at logicalnetworking.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm not the most experienced with this but I would have to think
> > that ext4, ReiserFS or XFS would probably all be just fine. Don't
> > forget to tune the filesystem options (/etc/fstab, etc.) too for
> > your specific use case (noatime/relatime come to mind for ext*
> > filesystems, not sure about others). Actual hardware specs will
> > probably impact your media consuming ability much more than the
> > filesystem used on storage medium. Also, think about the future -
> > set it up with LVM if you can as that would allow for easy adding
> > of storage devices to the current volume without much headache
> > if/when you run out of room.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jordan
> >
> >
> >
> > On 05/18/2013 12:39 PM, jezra wrote:
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > > I've got a 1TB SATA drive that I'm about to format and before I
> > > use ext4, I thought I would ask around for file system
> > > recommendations. The drive will be part of my media machine and
> > > will store my DVD collection. The files in the drive will mostly
> > > be around 1GB in size and the drive will have far more reads than
> > > writes.
> > >
> > > Jezra
> > >
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