What file system to choose for the hard drive?

Question

linux

Hello everybody! There is a WD RED hard drive ( https://www.dns-shop.ru/product/a389d0db1a8430b1/4... ).
Used to store large data such as disk images, archives, movies, etc.
Big data disk is often written to (about 1-4 GB every day). The data mostly weighs 2GB-30GB. It needs to work more or less quickly, be stable and reliable. The disk will work around the clock, used only in Linux.
And by the way, will ZFS go for it or not?
PS What about XFS?

Answer 1

If reliable, then ext4 . If you need to reduce the size of the partition, then XFS does not know how.

Answer 2

The file system is not chosen in order to read large files around the clock - any modern system can handle this (ntfs, ext4, and even ext3 is normal).
zfs is taken if additional features are needed - snapshots and online expansion due to other devices, if you do not want to use LVM
And so - any other file systems impose their additional costs on features, so it does not always make sense to take something fashionable if you do not use the functionality .

Answer 3

large files, linear and rare reading - any simple file system will do, starting with ext4
I would recommend zfs and btrfs, but these are systems for other tasks where you need such chips as snapshots without performance degradation, deduplication (by the way, btrfs is not easy to get ), on-the-fly compression, a convenient backup or, for example, broadcasting a snapshot to another machine over the network and a bunch of little things... and most importantly, they are not recommended for use because they are not stable enough!
ps reliably this is not about one disk, especially if cheap disks, for example, over the past few years, out of six disks (mostly the cheapest 3tb Toshiba and wd), three were changed under warranty, and one disk is knocking heads (I think the problem is of a logical nature, so how smart gives out strange things)
it means that? right, use raid1 or raid5/6 i.e. more disks are needed so that the death of one disk does not entail data loss and a waste of time to restore them

Answer 4

Ext4 of course if you need reliability and speed