Formatting of External Audio Xfer Drive?

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MoonMix Studios
People,

Picked up a Western Digital External HD for transferring Project & Bundle files (SONAR XL) between our band's two project studios (since most of our projects are well over CD-R capacity.)

The internal secondary drives in the PC's in our studios (which are used exclusively for audio data) are formatted to NTFS.

The Western Digital is formatted to FAT32.

I have heard that NTFS is superior for audio...but whether or not that's true...my question is; shouldn't I format the external drive to NTFS, to match the existing drives? (i.e., wouldn't that be better?)

Thanks,

mark4man
 
I'd go with NTFS. Better for audio...eh. The big things are the better error-correction and passing the 2 gig file limit. Also, defragmentation is MUCH faster on an NTFS drive than FAT32, and it's good to defragment often.
 
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