NTFS vs Journaled for External Hard Drive

[CrazyMuttDesign]

Hello All,

I am a developer and longtime PC user who recently made the move to a Macbook Pro. However, at work I am still in a PC (Windows 7) environment.

I have an external hard drive that I use on both computers to share files that I work on in both. It is formatted as an NTFS volume and I am using Tuxera on my Mac to simplify using the NTFS drive in a Mac environment.

Anyways, I am also a bit of a performance hound. So, my question is this:

Would I see any significant speed improvement using my external hard drive on my Mac if I reformatted it as a Mac Journaled volume or is what I am doing now just as good?

I know that if I do this, I will have to get a utility on my work PC that will allow me to read the drive, but I am more concerned with how it functions on my Mac than my PC.

Any advice you can offer would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

Bob

 

[chrismacguy]

To be honest with you I have never seen a noticeable difference between the two (I have a 640GB Ext formatted as such: 1 80GB NTFS Partition for PCs, 1 HFS+ for Time Machine, 1 Journaled for my Mac data). So I cant think it actually matters (Mine is used as a Scratch disc for Video editing btw, so its pretty intense work for an external 🙂 )

 

[old-wiz]

I suspect that the speed of the interface and drive itself is far more important than the file system type.