The default file system in Windows is NTFS, and the default file system in Ubuntu Linux is EXT4. The purpose of today’s 30 Days With Ubuntu Linux post is to try and understand what the difference is, ...

Microsofot has been working on a newer and better file system for Windows, but why is it taking so long to be widely adopted?

For over 10 years NTFS was, in my opinion, the most advanced file system for PC's. A few years ago, file systems like ext4 started reaching parity with NTFS.<BR><BR>Today ZFS is available and BTFS is ...

I've made the long overdue decision to keep backups on an external USB drive, but should I go with NTFS or exFAT for the drive? We have an all Windows household here, and although I fiddle with Linux ...

More and more articles have been appearing on the EXT4 filesystem. In fact, the article that really caught my eye was one recently regarding the speed of using EXT4 on flash media. The benchmarks ...

Performance To test the performance of the Synology USB Station 2 we used two different external USB 2 Hard Drives: Generic 2.5″ SATA USB2 Caddy with a Seagate 7200.4 500GB SATA2 Hard Drive (Shown as ...