I have a small external backup drive where I dump my phone camera captures and archive YouTube channels - nothing special; a few terabytes, mostly mp4s.

Is there anything I need to do before/after I swap?

If it matters, the drive is 9TB, formatted as NTFS, and connected via USB 3.0.

I also have 4 internal drives, but I’m not so much worried about them, as I plan on just formatting everything but the external.

  • justdaveisfine@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    20 hours ago

    This is likely not the case but I feel obligated to note that if you use Steam’s Proton and store games on an NTFS drive, its given me quirky problems in the past.

    • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      10 hours ago

      While I do not plan on using this drive for games, I will either do this, or possibly dual-boot bazzite, so I appreciate the info.