 Hi guys welcome back to my youtube channel this is Daniel Rosal here so I was playing around with my computer yesterday or the drives on it actually and did a video here recently I decided to format one of the drives on my computer and use it just for media storage because I'm doing a lot of video editing on the computer and I thought that was great I had it now running as just a drive for media and I could access it from my Ubuntu computer and all was well however I recently decided to start beginning using DaVinci Resolve on Ubuntu and quickly discovered that it was a little bit rubbish the Linux version just really doesn't work well it's got a bunch of problems I've encountered a rendering bug you have to transcode the clip separately to use mp4s it's a lot of headache and you just don't have those on the free version in Windows so I do have a Windows drive on my computer and I thought you know what I'm going to install DaVinci on this now the problem became that if I wanted to read and write from my new clip library drive on my computer then I needed to have a file system that would be readable and writable from both a Linux and a Windows drive so from exd4 and from ntfs and the answer to which format would solve that problem was actually ntfs you can also use fat32 so I did this and everything's working nicely I can read and write to my new media drive from both Windows and Linux however after doing this I wondered well is this going to be slower from Linux is there going to be like an overhead because of the fact that it's ntfs now I can't unmount this at the moment so I'm just going to do a read benchmark and just compare ntfs with exd4 here now the kernel version I'm using is five decimal eight decimal zero sixty three as you can see here I'm just using the genomes disk utility now you can do a whole disk benchmark by clicking on the three dots and click on benchmark disk or you can just benchmark a partition so that's what I'm going to do and this is ntfs now I've just I've ready run it but I'm going to just do these both again so this is measuring the read rate and it's quite quick actually so it came in there as let us see 552 so ntfs now as far as I know these are the same manufacturer and they're both Kingston SSDs neither is an NVME SSD neither is HDD so I struggle to see why they're why do we so different but so I'm getting on the ntfs 552 megabytes oops megabytes per second now let's see what I get if I'm doing it on an exd4 so I'm going to use the backup drive which is formatted to exd4 and let us go so this isn't the one that's in use which is also exd4 that's the operating system this is one that is currently relatively idle and here we go as you can see the average read rate is going to it's finished it's already run so 237 exd4 237 megabytes per second so quite surprising I'd have to go through my order history double check exactly if there are any differences because there's quite a difference there and it's actually quite surprising that the read speed on the ntfs formatted drive is actually significantly faster than for the exd4 formatted one so there's my unexpected finding for today anyway thought I'd do that video just showing the benchmarking utility within a genome disk utility because it's quite useful and doing stuff like benchmarking is great because it can take you away from that guesswork of not knowing having these theoretical questions about what different formatting file format methods journaling methods are going to have you can just go ahead and run tests and see exactly what's going on under the hood thank you you guys for watching more videos coming soon