Don't Use exFAT for your Sample Libraries 🚫 (Kontakt, SampleTank, Superior Drummer, Waves, etc...)

Why you don't want to use exFAT for your sound and sample library content, and what format you should use for your external drives.
If you are using external hard drives or external sold state drives (SSD) for sample libraries and sounds for virtual instruments, then you do not want to use exFAT for the drive!
exFAT is much slower when loading samples into Kontakt for example, and it can also cause glitches in playback. exFAT is also more prone to corruption since it does not have journaling.
While exFAT is awesome because it can work on both Mac and PC, the performance hit simply isn't worth it for your music studio.
The format you want to use instead is NTFS for Windows and APFS for Mac.
Whether you are using Native Instruments KONTAKT, Toontrack Superior Drummer, IK Multimedia SampleTank, Waves Virtual Instruments, etc... you will benefit from much faster loading times, and less of a chance of drive corruption.
If you don't know how to format a drive, it's covered in the video.
The external drives I use and recommend are the Samsung T7 Shield SSDs.
They have the best price to size and performance ratio. However, if you want the LATEST tech and don't mind spending quiet a bit more, then the Samsung T9 external SSDs would be my choice. But the T7 is already blazing fast for sample content and recording, as long as you don't format to exFAT.
*Note - If you have Native Instruments KOMPLETE 14 Collectors Edition and many other VI sample libraries, I would highly recommend you get a 4TB drive or two 2TB drives, because Komplete CE will take up almost all of a single 2TB drive.
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➡️CHAPTERS
0:00 - Why you shouldn't use exFAT
0:31 - What format you should use instead
1:13 - The External SSDs I use
1:35 - How to Format a Drive NTFS on Windows
3:14 - Assign your Sample Content to the New Drive
3:30 - How to Format a Drive APFS on Mac
3:47 - Enjoy faster loading sample libraries
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[@peterelfman]

I had no idea, and I'm no stranger to tech. Thanks for the tip!

[@GeordiLaForgery]

It would be more convincing if you showed an example of it actually being faster/slower.

[@cmd_f5]

Good stuff. I never really thought about it but it makes sense.

[@Fezzler61]

Good tip!

[@mixinginthebox]

Thank you...

[@TheReal_E.IRIZARRY]

Call me crazy, but I use Gparted to create NTFS and it works SEAM-LESS-LY in Linux Mint, Win 10 Pro and Win 11 Pro systems. I only use exFAT on a SDHC or less density micro SD for TASCAM devices because TASCAM is a princess when it comes to what formats and density it'll accept!

[@walth9092]

Having trouble with Superior Drummer 3. Not understanding how to set path for expansion packs on external drive.

[@BenoniStudio]

Use the standalone SD3 (not the plugin) Go to Settings - Libraries/Paths and set the location(s)

[@walth9092]

@@BenoniStudio Thanks for the reply Benoni. I still don't what to set locations to. what do I select when I'm at that page?

[@josephpaul8911]

You’re only about 5 years too late