What is better for an external hard drive, many small files or view big files?
>>55264091
It doesn't really matter with modern file systems. Single large files will be marginally faster.
fewer files are faster to work with in general, less metadata to handle
when transferring lots of files via a network or external drive, i put them into an archive (ex. tar), to make them a single file
>>55264091
>many small files or view big files
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but a few big files are generally faster than many small ones
>>55264091
Windows disables the write cache for removable media by default, which means small files are going to be very slow.
When you enable write caching, there is no difference to an internal hard drive however.
Linux enables write caching by default, so there's no difference to internal HDDs.
>>55265946
>>55264091
