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Which file system to choose from when formatting 1.5TB HDD?

Which file system to choose from when formatting 1.5TB HDD?

I plan to buy a 1.5TB hard drive soon. I would like to know which file system to choose from when I'm gonna format it.

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Guest [Entry]

I chose NTFS when I reformatted mine. Sure, it's windows-centric, but everything can read from it, and most things can write to it, and it's a fairly good filesystem - unlike the decidedly aged FAT32 that I would not use for a large drive, mainly because of the 4gb max file limit.
Guest [Entry]

NTFS maybe the best solution. Every other OS can read/write on it without issue. If you don't care about some NTFS features such as encryption, compression, permission or journaling, etc. then exFAT is another choice. It's specifically designed for flash drives but can be used for other drive types as well, and it doesn't suffer from the 4GB file size limit as FAT32. However due to the lack of journaling, it's not as safe as NTFS when using on an external drive