xgamer99 Wrote:I currently use ext4 for my filesystem on my media partition (hold movies, music, etc.) I will be acquiring a new hard drive soon, so I was wondering if there is a better filesystem out there that goes well with media storage (better performance, etc)
The filesystem for a mediacenter does not matter if you are using traditional harddisks (not SSDs). When talking about media centers we are looking at sequential reads of large files. The performance of large sequential reads is determined by the harddisk itself. No filesystem will make a noticable difference here. The performance differences are only interesting for academic purposes - you won't notice a difference on daily use.
What is more, all video codecs try to reduce the bandwidth as much as possible. You won't find a video which even comes close to the maximum read/write bandwidth of your harddrive.
If you want to see some benchmarks, use Google and search for "phoronix filesystem benchmark". Phoronix benchmarks all Linux filesystems on a regular basis. You can also download the Phoronix Test Suite and benchmark your harddrive yourself using different filesystems.
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When benchmarking yourself, always keep your use case in mind. There is of course a difference between all these filesystems, so depending on the benchmark you are running, you will get different results. When looking at benchmarks which were i.e. designed for database servers you will see huge differences in filesystem performance. However this is not your use case.
For simple sequential read/write performance checks you can also use the command line tool dd. You don't need to download the (rather big) Phoronix Test Suite.