Several years ago I made the decision to keep my portable storage drives formatted with NTFS "just in case" I wanted to plug them into a Windows computer. Did I ever need to? Not until this week when I had a 16TB drive get corrupted and I had to sit thorugh days of CHKDSK to get it working again.

Now I'm migrating 40TB+ of data to EXT4, and boy am I glad I only have to do this once...