Hi there!
I've buyed a Raspberry Pi4 to make a portable "mini" nas to download things, as a file storage and to enjoy films and music on the go.
All is working good (more or less ) but I'm severely undecided on what filesystem I should use on the related attached external hard disk (A simple 256GB mechanical hard drive. Is what I have now).
The obvious choice should be EXT4, but I would love to occasionally use my hard drive on Windows (to rapidly copy big files through USB3, or to easily copy all files to another disk if I want use a bigger disk in the future), thus I'm not sure if another option would worth the hassle and the theorically loss in speed or features.
Saying that, the obvious choice would be NTFS, but I've understood that this way I will lost ACL on folders but also no journaling is available, and I've read that is MUCH slower than Ext4.
The next option is EXFAT, but is hasn't journaling of other cool things available on Ext4 and also I can't find no truly information on how much slower it is against the previously named options.
Also, I don't know how hard and compatible are EXT4 alternative to set up on my Pi4 (NTFS and EXFAT are supported out of the box? They are an hassle to set up?)
Ok, I could simply give up to put my HD on windows, but....
Someone has some advice to tell regarding this topic? What should I do to have as little trouble as possible?