Wow, ex4 was horrible at writing.
I took a 1.06GB TV episode and copied it from my NTFS USB drive to the Vero’s 16GB internal memory at 38MB/s.
I then took that file and moved it to a different USB drive that I wiped clean and formatted as NTFS at 35MB/s.
No too shabby for USB2.0 and NTFS.
I then moved that file from that NTFS USB drive back to the Vero’s 16GB of internal mameroy at 36MB/s.
I then formatted that USB drive as ex4 and moved that same file from the VEro to the ex4 USB at 9MB/s… OUCH!
That can’t be right?
So I moved it from the ex4 USB drive back to the Vero at 36MB/s.
So let’s try that writing to ex4 USB drive things again because those last results don’t make any sense, wait… again with the same results at 9MB/s.
I wouldn’t take my test results as anything conclusive because I find it hard to believe ex4 write performance was only 9MB/s.
There has to be something wrong going on so I say those ex4 write results are trash.
But the NTFS read and writes looked at about exactly what I would expect from USB2.0.
That same drive on a USB3.0 port on my laptop runs 170+MB/s.
So I would say that my test show that the bottle neck for a single file transfer is limitted by the USB2.0 port and not the file system.
Now, I/O performance, CPU utilization, and all that other stuff is probably much better with ex4 so if you are running a torrent daemon on the Vero, then yeah, it might make a difference… BUT… neither file system should impact your ability to playback a video without stuttering and USB2.0 is more than sufficient to handle current bitrates as well.
So the decision to use one file system over the other would primarily be decided on how you manage your files.
In my case, I bring files from my Laptop to the Vero’s USB mounted drives.
In this situation, transfer speeds over the gigabit network to the USB2.0 port max out at around 38MB/s.
So with NTFS, I can just unplug the HDD and plug it in to my Windows laptop and transfer files at 170+MB/s (that’s faster than gigabit by the way which theoretically maxes out at 128MB/s).
If the Vero had USB3.0 ports and I could get around 120MB/s over the gigabit network, I’d probably format my drives as ex4 and leave them put on the Vero and manage them remotely.
If you use a NAS or a USB drive with Vero managing torrents, then do what makes best sense for you.
BUT THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL NTFS IS TO BLAME FOR STUTTERING VIDEOS.
Sorry @sam_nazarko but for the first time I have to disagree with you, for several months I played untouched UHD rips on my Vero 4K from a NTFS hdd , in fact from several hdd’s in a setup very similar to @Kontrarian described (Seagate backup plus with 2 more drives plugged into its two USB ports) without an issue.
I had no stuttering, no buffering and seek worked perfectly, the only thing I changed from out of the box setups on the hdd’s was using a different USB 3 cable on the Seagate to the one which came with it, the supplied cable limited that drive to a maximum of 30 MB/s on file transfers within my Windows 10 environment whereas a different cable yielded about 170 MB/s
Maybe within a Linux environment that may be true.
I have several drives attached to my Windows 10 machine which also acts as my media server and I see no difference in performance between those formatted in ext4 and those in NTFS.
Read operations were all I was concerned about when I had the drives connected to my Vero 4K and they/it performed admirably for the task in hand, I always disconnected the drives from the Vero when I wanted to transfer files to take advantage of USB 3 transfer speeds, that became a pain in the backside the more UHD files I got which is when I made myself learn how to set up fstab and then autofs.
Here is a list of untouched UHD remuxes that have never given me any issues: DELETED
They are all sitting on a Seagte Backup Plus Hub 8TB plugged directly into one of the Vero’s USB ports.
Maybe I got some special yield of a Vero 4k+ that out perfroms the others on the market.
And yes, those ex4 write speeds are weird so I don’t trust those results, but I was able to duplicate the results and thats a real world benchmark, not just some synthetic bench, so go figure.
So then you type the password. You will not see any cursor movement when typing in the password field, this is a security feature. Type the password and press enter.
Do you have PowerShell?
Hold down SHIFT and RIGHT CLICK on a folder, if you see “Open PowerShell window here” in the context menu then you do.
I use PowerShell and it’s pretty straight forward.
Just another option to consider.
